Definition of "intercession" []

• Entreaty in favor of another, especially a prayer or petition to God in behalf of another. (noun)
• Mediation in a dispute. (noun)

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• "And, as he always hears the Son interceding for us, so he always hears the Spirit interceding in us, because his intercession is according to the will of God."
• "Following the lecture His Eminence will Pontificate at a Solemn Mass according to the Missal of Paul VI in intercession for the beatification of John Henry Newman at the Oxford Oratory at 6.00 pm."
• "My first guess was that a useful intercession is one that preserves an important distinction in the language."