intervenient

== English == === Etymology === From the present participle stem of Latin intervenīre. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ɪntəˈviːnɪənt/ === Adjective === intervenient (not comparable) Being only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental. 1971, Supreme Court of Michigan, Thompson v. Enz, 385 Mich. 103, 188 N.W.2d 579: We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance. Intervening, interceding, placed or coming between. 1931, L. Minerva Turnbull, "Private Schools in Norfolk, 1800-1860," William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd ser., vol. 11, no. 4, p. 279: The Norfolk Grammar School had two sessions "with a short intervenient recess." === Noun === intervenient (plural intervenients) One who intervenes. 2006, "Is the Sacred for Sale? Tourism & Indigenous Peoples," Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (www.unpo.org), 7 Aug.: One intervenient said that whereas we cannot prevent tourism, we can at least try to minimize the impact and the destabilizing effects. == Latin == === Verb === intervenient third-person plural future active indicative of interveniō