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
Either the Objective is taken as primary, and then we have to account for the supervention of the Subjective which coalesces with it, which natural philosophy supposes.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
It is true that Dr. A. is compelled to admit this among the causes of dropsy; but faithful to his theory, he supposed the supervention of an arterial reaction resulting in an effusion of serum.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
I say the feeling, not the touch; for the touch seems, as it were, a supervention to the feeling, a perfection given to it by the reaction of the higher powers.
From Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
—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
