Interposition
[ɪntəpə'zɪʃ(ə)n]
Definition
(noun.) the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others.
Edited by Dinah--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.
(n.) The thing interposed.
Edited by Erna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mediation, intervention, interpellation, intercession.
Checker: Sabina
Examples
- I was released at last, not by my own efforts, but by Sir Percival's interposition. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He retreated into the corner, step by step; but do what he would, the interposition of his own person, prevented its being opened to its utmost width. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Secondary, or reflective impressions are such as proceed from some of these original ones, either immediately or by the interposition of its idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- At that point, my convict became so frantically exasperated, that he would have rushed upon him but for the interposition of the soldiers. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This interposition of Carthage was fatal to Pyrrhus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In consequence I felt very grateful to him, and supposed it was his interposition that had set me right with the government. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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