intervenient
Pronunciations
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/ɪntəˈviːnɪənt/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Adjective
Being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental.
Usage- not-comparable
- Examples
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We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance.
Intervening, interceding, placed or coming between.
Usage- not-comparable
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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.
The Norfolk Grammar School had two sessions "with a short intervenient recess."
Noun
One who intervenes.
- Examples
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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.
Word forms
intervenients