supervene
verb (used without object)
to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on orupon ).
had supervened
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past perfectof supervene.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Afterwards, when a certain amount of imperfection had supervened between me and that perfect look, these explanations did present themselves, yes, in crowds, but not then.
From The Debit Account by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
Two days later the surgeon of the regiment established the fact that inflammatory rheumatism had supervened, and this had taken so bad a turn within a short time that the heart had become affected.
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse
To be sure, the statute of Great Britain, literally construed, so provided, but the law of nations had supervened, and rendered that statute no longer applicable.
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton
It was claimed that a comparative state of quiet had supervened.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
The rigorous curtailment of his liberty which prompted Galileo to head his letters, ‘From my prison at Arcetri,’ was relaxed when total blindness had supervened upon the infirmities of age.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
