intervenient
English
Etymology
From the present participle stem of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin intervenīre.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
intervenient (not comparable)
- Being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental.
- 1971, Supreme Court of Michigan, Thompson v. Enz, 385 Mich. 103, 188 N.W.2d 579:
- We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance.
- 1971, Supreme Court of Michigan, Thompson v. Enz, 385 Mich. 103, 188 N.W.2d 579:
- Intervening, interceding, placed or coming between.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 133:
- The massive slopes rose on every hand; from deep intervenient ravines came now and then silver gleams of mountain torrents among the crags and the pines.
- 1931, L. Minerva Turnbull, "Private Schools in Norfolk, 1800-1860," William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd ser., vol. 11, no. 4, p. 279:
- The Norfolk Grammar School had two sessions "with a short intervenient recess."
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 133:
Noun
intervenient (plural intervenients)
- One who intervenes.
- 2006, "Is the Sacred for Sale? Tourism & Indigenous Peoples," Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (www.unpo.org), 7 Aug.:
- One intervenient said that whereas we cannot prevent tourism, we can at least try to minimize the impact and the destabilizing effects.
- 2006, "Is the Sacred for Sale? Tourism & Indigenous Peoples," Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (www.unpo.org), 7 Aug.:
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) intervenient