intervenient

English

Etymology

From the present participle stem of Latin intervenīre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪntəˈviːnɪənt/

Adjective

intervenient (not comparable)

1. 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.

2. Intervening, interceding, placed or coming between.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 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."

Noun

intervenient (plural intervenients)

1. 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.

Latin

Verb

intervenient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of interveniō