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

The spontaneous supervention of trance relieves the spasm.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

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

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

Wounds are dangerous from shock, hæmorrhage, from the supervention of crysipelas or pyæmia, and from malum regimen on the part of the patient or surgeon.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )