Intervenient
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪntəˈviːnɪənt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Intervenient is an adjective meaning Being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental.
Meaning
Being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental.
More Meanings
- Intervening, interceding, placed or coming between.
- One who intervenes.
Example Sentences
We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance.
The Norfolk Grammar School had two sessions "with a short intervenient recess."
One intervenient said that whereas we cannot prevent tourism, we can at least try to minimize the impact and the destabilizing effects.
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.
Word Forms
- intervenients
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include aversions, second-order, interventive, intercurrent, intervening, intermedial.
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