Intercession
[,ɪntə'seʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪntɚ'sɛʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or (less often) against, another or others.
Typist: Miguel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mediation, interposition, intervention.
Typist: Richard
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INTERCEDE]
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Definition
n. act of interceding or pleading for another.—adj. Intercess′ional containing intercession or pleading for others.—n. Intercess′or one who goes between: one who reconciles two enemies: one who pleads for another: a bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.—adjs. Intercessō′rial Intercess′ory interceding.—Intercession of saints prayer offered in behalf of Christians on earth by saints.
Edited by Janet
Examples
- The soft-hearted cook added his intercession, and the result was that the man who had first appeared undertook its delivery. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- If the servants had any request to make, it was always through her intercession. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Sir Percival had neither friends nor relatives in the neighbourhood whose intercession I could attempt to employ. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Editor: Sheldon