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
When a bubble of nitrogen was exposed in air in the magnetic field, on the supervention of the power, the bubble retreated from the magnet.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall
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
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
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
