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

The spontaneous supervention of trance relieves the spasm.

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

The beneficent action of Apis, in intermittent fever, is still increased by the fact that it prevents the supervention of typhus, disorganizations of the spleen, dropsy, china-cachexia.

From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.

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

When one tube was filled with oxygen, and the other with nitrogen, on the supervention of the magnetic force, the oxygen was pulled towards the axis, the nitrogen being pushed out.

From Faraday as a Discoverer by Tyndall, John