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
Or the Subjective is taken as primary, and then we have to account for the supervention of the objective, which spiritual philosophy supposes.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
When one tube was filled with oxygen, and the other with nitrogen, on the supervention of the magnetic force, the oxygen was pulled towards the axis, the nitrogen being pushed out.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall
—Continuance of Day under this, and supervention of Night under this Cycle, produce: —A static, but weakening period until: —165, the year in which a new Eastern Han Day should begin.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
This was occasionally accentuated by the supervention of myelitis.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
