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

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 Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

This, together with the supervention of hysterical fits, may aptly enough be compared to tarantism.

From The Black Death The Dancing Mania by Babington, B. G. (Benjamin Guy)

The spontaneous supervention of trance relieves the spasm.

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