supervene
verb (used without object)
to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on orupon ).
supervention
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a word derived from
supervene.
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
The spontaneous supervention of trance relieves the spasm.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
This, together with the supervention of hysterical fits, may aptly enough be compared to tarantism.
From The Black Death The Dancing Mania by B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington
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
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
