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intervenient

UK/ɪntəˈviːnɪənt/

intervenient adjective: being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental.

Adjective

intervenient (not comparable)

  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" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 133
    • 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

Noun

intervenient (plural intervenients)

  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 Nations and Peoples Organization (www.unpo.org), 7 Aug.

intervenient meaning in Bengali

intervenient in Bengali

গৌণ, আনুষঙ্গিক, হস্তক্ষেপকারী, মধ্যস্থতাকারী, অথবা দুইয়ের মাঝে অবস্থিত, আগত

Forms of intervenient

pluralintervenients

Origin of intervenient

From the present participle stem of Latin intervenīre.

Questions about intervenient

What does intervenient mean?
Intervenient means being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental.
What is intervenient in Bengali?
Intervenient in Bengali is গৌণ, আনুষঙ্গিক, হস্তক্ষেপকারী. See Intervenient meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is intervenient?
Intervenient can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce intervenient?
Intervenient is pronounced /ɪntəˈviːnɪənt/ (UK).

Words near intervenient in the dictionary

  1. interveneth
  2. intervenience
  3. interveniences
  4. interveniencies
  5. interveniency
  6. intervenient
  7. intervenients
  8. intervening
  9. intervening cause
  10. interveningly
  11. intervenings

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