INTERCESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intercession mean? 

• INTERCESSION (noun)
  The noun INTERCESSION has 2 senses:

1. a prayer to God on behalf of another person

2. the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)

  Familiarity information: INTERCESSION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERCESSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A prayer to God on behalf of another person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("intercession" is a kind of...):

orison; petition; prayer (reverent petition to a deity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

intercession; intervention

Context example:

it occurs without human intervention

Hypernyms ("intercession" is a kind of...):

engagement; involution; involvement; participation (the act of sharing in the activities of a group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intercession"):

intermediation; mediation (the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement)

Derivation:

intercede (act between parties with a view to reconciling differences)

 Context examples 

Adele, when lifted in, commenced kissing me, by way of expressing her gratitude for my intercession: she was instantly stowed away into a corner on the other side of him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yet, by the goodness of heaven and the pious intercession of the valiant St. George, I was able to sit my charger in the ruffle of Poictiers, which was no very long time afterwards.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If it should chance, he said, that through the surpassing merits of the blessed Paul your sin-stained soul should gain a way into paradise, I trust that you will not forget that intercession which you have promised.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)