INTERCESSION Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

intercession

noun

Definition of intercession

as in prayer

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Recent Examples of intercession Not all birth rituals depended on the intercession of a saint or the authority of a churchman. — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026 While parishioners gathered at a church near her mother’s home for intercession, Savannah Guthrie pleaded on Instagram. — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026 The salvific intercessions of a goddess would have been needed. — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026 This is not the first time the Bears have risen to heavenly heights amid suspicions of supernatural intercession. — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for intercession

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Noun

Sitake winds up practice with a prayer and insists that the defense and offense shake hands after going at one another all day.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
In 1697 the Massachusetts General Court ordered a day of fasting and prayer to repent for the unlawfulness of the trials.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of prayer

Noun

There were many other signs that Xi would not readily yield to Trump’s supplications.

— Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2026
Given the dramatic manner in which the hulking piers marched down the center of the institution’s narrow corridor, flanked by the photographer’s three-inch-square Polaroids, hung as if in awed supplication, the effect verged on hyperbole, the gnomic ceding to the grandiose.

— James Quandt, Artforum, 2 June 2026

Definition of supplication

Noun

But such is the scale of Brazil’s polarization that many Brazilians are insensible to Lula’s entreaties and want the left defeated.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Abroad, their entreaties had remained unsuccessful, their diplomats had remained unrecognized, and their national existence had remained unrealized.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of entreaty

Noun

Repetition is the governing principle throughout the record, from the recurring melodic figures to Sundfør’s own invocations.

— Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
The invocation of the former district attorney in the mayor’s race is more complicated.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of invocation

Noun

In a plea agreement, Rice pleaded guilty to two third-degree felony charges.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Nov. 2026
Barrie is known for his college football coverage for The Worldwide Leader, and during Thursday night's game between UTSA and FAU, the longtime CFB host decided to lobby against fall weddings with an impassioned plea to all the other fellow psychos.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of plea

Noun

Big business interests like building owners, developers and the property tax attorneys that file appeals for both lined up with Hynes, who convinced party officials to endorse him over the summer.

— A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
Before that, Gooden was an appellate attorney who handled hundreds of appeals.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2026

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