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Adjective (1)

occurring or falling between events or points in time“so much had happened during the intervening years”Opposite late, earlySimilar middle

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

“intervening” is listed under Intervene.

In′ter·vene′ intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Intervened; present participle & verbal noun Intervening.]

Origin: L. intervenire, interventum, to intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See Come.

1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; — followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

2. To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.

3. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.

4. In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter. Benjamin Vaughan. Abbott

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54