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
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
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
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
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
