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Definition of Subvenes
1. subvene [v] - See also: subvene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subvenes
Literary usage of Subvenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"... the same when too old, so the arrows have to be re-dipped at stated intervals (about
nine months). Death subvenes from three to twelve days afterwards, ..."
2. Foundations of Biology by Lorande Loss Woodruff (1922)
"... colorless plants,and animals gradually become reciprocally adjusted so that
a self-perpetuating condition of practically stable equilibrium subvenes; ..."
3. Letters of Thomas Edward Brown, Author of 'Fo'e'sle Yarns': Author of 'Fo'c by Thomas Edward Brown (1900)
"There is a pathos in a great distance, and a tenderness supervenes, or subvenes,
when the distance is well and subtly filled. The gannets are now returned ..."
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