Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coming between; intervention.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Intervention; interposition.
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- noun
intervention ;interposition
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Examples
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Add, that this wisdom in his counsel is attended with infallible prescience of all that will fall in by the way, or in the course of the accomplishment of his purposes, and you will quickly see that there can be no possible intervenience, upon the account whereof the Lord should not engage his almighty power for their accomplishment.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Not that we are able, upon any rational consideration, deduction, or conclusion, that we can make from the things mentioned, to affect our hearts with the joy and gladness intended; it is left no less the proper work of the Spirit to do it from hence, and by the intervenience of these considerations, than to do it immediately without them.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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A lawful action may be depraved and changed by the intervenience of an ill intention.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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