intercession

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INTERCES'SION, noun [Latin intercessio, from intercedo. See Intercede.] The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconciliation; prayer or solicitation to one party in favor of another, sometimes against another. Your intercession now is needless grown; Retire and let me speak with her alone. He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Isaiah 53:12.
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