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

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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 Tyndall, John

The spontaneous supervention of trance relieves the spasm.

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

The remedy should not be set aside as long as there are signs of improvement, unless the supervention of stomachic, intestinal or other disturbance demand its discontinuance.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman