[f. SUPERVENE + -ING1.] The action of the verb SUPERVENE; supervention.
1667. Boyle, Orig. Formes & Qual., etc. (ed. 2), 345. The supervening of a higher Form. Ibid. (1685), Effects of Motion, iv. 42. Bottles … being full of the liquor were firmly stopped before the supervening of the Cold.
1737. Waterland, Eucharist, x. Wks. 1823, VII. 287. It is not the water that confers this benefit,… but it is the appointment of God, and the supervening of the Spirit.
1826. Bell, Comm. Law Scot. (ed. 5), II. 7. Although the supervening of an heritable security … makes a moveable debt heritable.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 241. In the theory of Berkeley, the world, birth, death, [etc.] … are true, and not of such a nature, that they vanish away on the supervening of right apprehension.
