† interˈvenience Obs. rare.
[f. intervenient: see -ence.]
The fact of intervening; intervention; a coming between.
| a 1626 W. Sclater Exp. 4th Chapt. Rom. (1650) 177 In respect of that frequent intervenience of sins, destroying the value of other works. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ Diat. ii. 105 To retrench all intervenience of time. a 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. v. 335 The intervenience of more successive instrumental Causes. 1814 Coleridge in Jos. Cottle Early Recoll. (1837) II. 230 Without intervenience..of any interest, sensual or intellectual. |