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Intervent

Intervent \In`ter*vent"\, v. t. [See Intervene.] To thwart; to obstruct. [Obs.]
--Chapman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intervent

"to come between," 1590s, from Latin interventus, past participle of intervenire (see intervention). Related: Intervented; interventing.

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intervent

vb. (context obsolete English) To thwart; to obstruct.

Usage examples of "intervent".

It went to pretrial intervent and was dismissed when Sharkey agreed to go home to his mother and a there.

It had indeed seemed to Paulina, as she scanned those early pages, that they revealed a spontaneity, a freshness of feeling somehow absent from his later lucubrations--as though this one emotion had reached him directly, the others through some interventing [sic] medium.