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

The unknowable force that does not lend itself to hope, prayer, diligent actions, good intentions or rigorous effort.

— Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
Please keep her family, her fellow deputies, and the entire Lexington County community in your prayers.

— David Chiu, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of prayer

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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

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Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas, the state’s top elections official, conceded the errors that led to lawsuits by Democrats in Hartford and Enfield concerning the gathering of petition signatures in order to force a primary.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
During the Trustee’s inquiry into their Chapter 11 petition, concern grew over how the couple used the GoFundMe proceeds, which immediately jumped to $102,290 in January 2025 after the fundraiser was launched, the filing said.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

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Redolent of palo santo, leather, tobacco flowers, and patchouli, its invocation of campfire and church incense will keep the aura of sacred smoke around you all day.

— Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2026
Their selective invocations of Washington may have obscured his complicity, but some abolitionists truly believed doing so would help bring the horror of American slavery to an end.

— John Garrison Marks, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026

Definition of invocation

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Disturbing jailhouse conversations don’t connect mother to murders Allegations of drug abuse and child neglect against Marcee Gray were already well established by the time her son Colt entered guilty pleas on 55 counts.

— Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
Savannah Guthrie issued a new plea for information on Saturday, after authorities released two ransom notes received in the days after her mother Nancy’s disappearance six months ago.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of plea

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Realizing that truth would be a route toward not only better preparedness going forward but also a more general granting of grace.

— Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026
Cunningham, however, received no such grace after speaking out in defense of women's sports.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026

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