provenience

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I mean, I’ve heard of provenance — the unbroken chain of ownership of, say, an old master painting or Tang dynasty vase — but provenience?

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2015

However, there is still no definitive word on the masks’ provenience and they say their detective work will continue.

From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2015

Even then there was a multiplicity of state legislatures and only one Congress, so that the legislative grist that found its way to the Court's mill was overwhelmingly of local provenience.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel

The inscription was on a small cippus, and was seen in a great many different places, so no argument can be drawn from its provenience.

From A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Magoffin, Ralph Van Deman

In many cases, however, my own investigations have led me to different conclusions, principally with regard to certain tests and the dialectal provenience of loanwords.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias