intercede
/ɪntə(ɹ)ˈsiːd/ verb C2- To plead on someone else's behalf. · Our Lady intercedes
- To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.
- To pass between; to intervene.
He/she/it intercedes · Past interceded · Past participle interceded · -ing form interceding
Verb forms
- Base form
- intercede
- He/she/it
- intercedes
- Past
- interceded
- Past participle
- interceded
- -ing form
- interceding
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The magistrate laid emphasis on these words, as if he wished to apply them to the owner himself, while his eyes seemed to plunge into the heart of one who, interceding for another, had himself need of indulgence.
“Monsieur,” said Morrel, recovering his assurance as he proceeded, “do you recollect that a few days before the landing of his majesty the emperor, I came to intercede for a young man, the mate of my ship, who was accused of being concerned in correspondence with the Island of Elba?
Twenty times he interceded for Edmond.
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