Synonym: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience. Similar words: covenant, proven, penance, sustenance, countenance, maintenance, move heaven and earth, governance. Meaning: ['prɑvənəns /'prɒ-] 
n. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence.
n. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence. 
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(1) This raised doubts about the provenance of the painting.
(2) All the furniture is of English provenance.
(3) The provenance of the paintings is unknown.
(4) Kato was fully aware of the provenance of these treasures.
(5) There's no proof about the provenance of the painting .
(6) Obviously genuine pieces, but of very dubious provenance.
(7) Although the provenance of the 10 percent number is clear, its scientific basis is much less so.
(8) The provenance of a manure heap seemed of limited importance beside the problems presently exercising her mind.
(9) Such examination may also help us to determine provenance by revealing inclusions characteristic of particular geological sources.
(10) Sandstone sequences are the result of both provenance and tectonic environment, modified by climate, depositional environment and later diagenetic events.
(11) The method of attribution by provenance works best with coinages of a small scale or a low value, such as bronze coinage.
(12) Provenance work on the turbidite sandstones has indicated at least two sources for heavy minerals.
(13) In other words the principle of provenance which underlies archival recordkeeping takes on a different form when electronic information is being considered.
(14) The provenance of electronic records in government and business must be related to the culture and organisation that created the information.
(15) They are blessed with the distinguished provenance of the Pellerin Collection, formed by Auguste Pellerin between 1895 and 1925.
(16) Modal composition and provenance studies can therefore only be partially accurate in many siliciclastic formations. Sentencedict.com
(17) He had no idea of its provenance.
(18) A Malaysian political analyst asked about my provenance 8.
(19) The results indicate that there were two different provenance systems during the deposition of the upper Es 4 :one on the upthrow of the Tuo94fault and the other on the upthrow of the Shengbei fault.
(20) The near provenance relation between ancient Jun porcelain and ancient Ru porcelain is preliminarily analyzed.
(21) Provenance: By connect the statistic that produces province and big Tibet province treatment, push plan and.
(22) I don't need to see a label to identify the provenance of a garment that someone is wearing.
(23) In addition to studies using the modal composition of a sediment, other provenance determinations can be made from individual quartz grains.
(24) Not content with stars and galaxies, they try to understand the whole universe, its provenance and fate.
(25) They talked of their summer adventures, of their hopes for the future, but mostly of their own provenance.
(26) She was a dreary, promiscuous, disorganized piece of human driftwood, who kept having babies of dubious provenance.
(27) Yet in the case of electronic records the details of provenance are all too quickly lost following the process of generation.
(28) If this can be confirmed, it would be an invaluable adjunct to provenance studies.
(29) The sky was so immense it swallowed the landscape, but the land swallowed up the provenance of the sky.
(30) The categories and quantities of accompanying minerals provide beneficial information for exploring the provenance of tapis lazuli.
More similar words: covenant, proven, penance, sustenance, countenance, maintenance, move heaven and earth, governance, tenancy, prove, proved, improve, proverb, approve, reprove, improved, approved, approve of, province, proverbial, disapprove, finance, provinces, improvement, ordnance, lieutenant governor, assonance, luminance, resonance, ordinance.