Definition of Intervening

1. Adjective. Occurring or falling between events or points in time. "So much had happened during the intervening years"

Similar to: Middle

Definition of Intervening

1. Noun. intervention; mediation ¹

2. Adjective. that intervenes or mediates ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of intervene) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Intervening

1. intervene [v] - See also: intervene

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Literary usage of Intervening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"As soon as that order in his favor was made he filed an intervening petition in the circuit court, asking that the amount so allowed him might be paid out ..."

2. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1867)
"Intervening Calls, or Assessments. \. Vendor must pay calls, if that is requisite to pass title, 2. Generally it is matter of construction, and inference. n ..."

3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"INTER.ME'DIATE. adj. [intermedia*-, Fr. inter and medius, Lat.] Intervening; interposed ; holding the middle ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"325 13 6 One night intervening, ' Fashionable Levities,' for Mr. Lewis's Benefit ... 193 4 U One night intervening, ' Love in a Village,' for Mr. Johnston's ..."

5. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"But if not parties, and assenting, an intervening attachment prior to the assent will have preference. So, a voluntary assignment, in contemplation of ..."

6. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"This brought my forces to within about four hundred and fifty ! or five hundred yards of the enemy's batteries, the woods, swamp and creek intervening, ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is to be noted that there is no year Ü intervening, as some have imagined, between в. с. and AD It is supposed by many that the calculation of Dionysius ..."

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