intervenient

/ɪntəˈviːnɪənt/

adj 2noun 1

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ADJ.

deep, short, significant

VERB + INTERVENIENT

confronted, hand

INTERVENIENT + NOUN

facts, ravines, recess

PREP.

from, whereas, with

Definitions

adj

Being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental.

We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance.

Intervening, interceding, placed or coming between.

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.

The Norfolk Grammar School had two sessions "with a short intervenient recess."

noun

One who intervenes.

One intervenient said that whereas we cannot prevent tourism, we can at least try to minimize the impact and the destabilizing effects.

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We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance.

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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.

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The Norfolk Grammar School had two sessions "with a short intervenient recess."

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One intervenient said that whereas we cannot prevent tourism, we can at least try to minimize the impact and the destabilizing effects.

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