intervenient

One who intervenes.

Adjective

  1. Being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental.
    • We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance. - 1971, Supreme Court of Michigan, Thompson v. Enz, 385 Mich. 103, 188 N.W.2d 579
  2. 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. - 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's"...
    • The Norfolk Grammar School had two sessions "with a short intervenient recess." - 1931, L. Minerva Turnbull, "Private Schools in Norfolk, 1800-1860," William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd ser., vol. 11, no. 4, p. 279

Origin

From the present participle stem of Latin intervenīre.

Noun

  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. - 2006, "Is the Sacred for Sale? Tourism & Indigenous Peoples," Unrepresented...

Forms

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