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

Thank you for your messages, your prayers, your encouragement, and for standing beside our team throughout these past weeks.

— Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Later winter sunrises could make morning prayers more difficult, particularly in parts of the Midwest and Mountain West.

— Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of prayer

Noun

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
Like the appeals made by women during the antiquity to midwife goddesses, prayer and supplication were ways to affirm intentions for healthy pregnancies, calm labors, and living children.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026

Definition of supplication

Noun

The petition was launched on Canada's parliamentary petitions portal, where citizens and residents of Canada can set up petitions to parliament.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
But House Republican leader Vincent Candelora, who led the petition drive to defeat MacCormack, said fellow Republicans will continue to work against him.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of petition

Noun

Alicent makes similar entreaties to Rhaenyra, offering to divide the kingdom, with Aegon in charge of the stormlands, westerlands, the Reach and rule from Oldtown, with everything to the north going to Rhaenyra.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
These are the people who will likely be most amenable to negotiations or personal entreaties.

— Clio Chang, Curbed, 17 June 2026

Definition of entreaty

Noun

The mandate may not have any legal authority to compel states to change their guidelines in the near term, although the invocation of the attorney general suggests that litigation may be on the horizon.

— Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
Wermiel, the American University law professor, considers the invocation of Brown to be the most offensive passage in Roberts’s body of opinions.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of invocation

Noun

Immediately after his plea, Mangione’s lawyers filed paperwork seeking to have the state case thrown out on double jeopardy grounds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
Friday’s big story on the cable news networks was the guilty plea of Luigi Mangione, the man who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in 2024.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of plea

Noun

He was sentenced to death in 1986, won an appeal for a new sentencing hearing and was again sentenced to death in 1989.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
The mish-mash of different stands, for instance, at Harrogate Town’s Wetherby Road — now no longer part of the ’92’, following their relegation in May— gave the place a certain appeal, even though the National League felt a more natural home.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of appeal

Noun

The Moon conjoins Venus in Libra and your 10th House of Career, Reputation, and Authority, helping your work, leadership, or public image land with more grace.

— Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2026
Their determination goes beyond willpower and touches the fringes of deeper grace.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of grace

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