intervenient

1. not comparableBeing only in between other more important things; secondary, incidental.

   We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance.

   1971, Supreme Court of Michigan, Thompson v. Enz, 385 Mich. 103, 188 N.W.2d 579

2. not comparableIntervening, interceding, placed or coming between.

   The Norfolk Grammar School had two sessions "with a short intervenient recess."

   1931, L. Minerva Turnbull, "Private Schools in Norfolk, 1800-1860," William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd ser., vol. 11, no. 4, p. 279

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   The massive slopes rose on every hand; from deep intervenient ravines came now and then silver gleams of mountain torrents among the crags and the pines.

   1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 133

plural intervenients

1. One who intervenes.

   One intervenient said that whereas we cannot prevent tourism, we can at least try to minimize the impact and the destabilizing effects.

   2006, "Is the Sacred for Sale? Tourism & Indigenous Peoples," Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (www.unpo.org), 7 Aug.