supervention

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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 Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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 Makins, George Henry

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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 Nicholson, Henry Alleyne