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1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xvii. 148 The place..is thus, by the superuenience of a guest of a contrary nature..purged from the superaboundance of the former ones that annoyed it.

1677 J. Brown Christ the Way sig. B8^v Every act of holinesse is an act of the soul..quickened to each action by the supervenience of new life and influence.

1786 T. Motte Narr. of Journey to Diamond Mines in Asiatic Misc. 2 59 The great Boyle advances, that..transparent gems have been once liquid substances shot into the form of chrystals, by the supervenience, or the exalted action, of some already inexistent petrescent liquor.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 809 I endeavoured to insinuate into Mr Abernethy..that as long as he clung to the phantom of a supervenience, instead of evolution, and of a supervenient Fluid..so long he would lay himself bare to the attacks of Lawrence, and the Materialists.

1885 R. L. Stevenson Prince Otto i. iv I would look..to the natural supervenience of a more able sovereign.

1921 Boston Univ. Law Rev. June 210 Every legal relation is subject to destruction by resolutive facts of intervenience or supervenience.

1952 R. M. Hare Lang. Morals ix. 145 Let us take that characteristic of ‘good’ which has been called its supervenience.

1978 Amer. Philos. Q. 15 151/2 The attraction of the concept of supervenience consists precisely in the prospect of its providing us with a determinative relationship between two families of properties where there are no correlations between the properties in the two families.

1990 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Nov. 1270/3 He [sc. John L. Pollock]..ultimately abandons supervenience..as an account of the relation between mental and physical properties of persons.

2005 G. Oddie Value, Reality, & Desire vi. 146 The core which every concept of supervenience respects is the following principle: there can be no difference in the distribution of the supervening properties without some difference in the distribution of the base properties.