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
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
The spontaneous supervention of trance relieves the spasm.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
—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
