supervention
Example Sentences
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“The existing order is complete,” Eliot explains, “before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019
This, together with the supervention of hysterical fits, may aptly enough be compared to tarantism.
From The Black Death The Dancing Mania by B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington
As regards the life of the Post-Pliocene period, we have, in the first place, to notice the effect produced throughout the Page 345 northern hemisphere by the gradual supervention of the Glacial period.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson
When a bubble of nitrogen was exposed in air in the magnetic field, on the supervention of the power, the bubble retreated from the magnet.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall
It is the creation of a constitutional condition that requires the supervention of legislative power in the exercise of legislative discretion to give it effect.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
