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Definition of Subvening
1. subvene [v] - See also: subvene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subvening
Literary usage of Subvening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Philip Arthur Ashworth (1896)
"Hence it seemed likely that, through passion and circumstance, the tory might
aid in establishing despotism, or the whig in subvening monarchy. ..."
2. The Works of William E. Channing by William Ellery Channing (1849)
"... sustaining different offices and relations to the world ; and it regards the
Unitarian, as subvening the foundation of human hope, by asserting that ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"... home and fireside—and that they had crossed into her country for the purpose
oi' subvening its institutions, and the form of government it had chosen, ..."
4. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1848)
"... is planned the movement that is subvening thrones and leveling up society.
For uca: . •- century past have there been at work the ..."
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