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Intervenient

//ɪntəˈviːnɪənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental. not-comparable

    "We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance."

  2. 2
    Intervening, interceding, placed or coming between. not-comparable

    "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."

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the present participle stem of Latin intervenīre.

Etymology 2

From the present participle stem of Latin intervenīre.

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