intercede

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I tried to intercede -- the last who should have done it.

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  1. intransitive verb To plead on another's behalf.
  2. intransitive verb To act as mediator in a dispute.

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  • The mother began to hit her ex-boyfriend in the face and Dossantos and another man tried to intercede, according to paperwork filed in Brockton District Court. —  The Enterprise Home RSS
  • "The high cash contingent may make it difficult for interlopers to intercede, as it involves both Pfizer's existing cash, and new debt" of —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
  • Let me intercede--let me arrange some other plan On Clarke's face a sneering, one-sided smile crept as he answered: "You are too late. —  The Tyranny of the Dark
  • He was afterward subjected to excruciating tortures; for the fury against the wretch who had destroyed the "father of the country" was uncontrollable, and William the Silent was no longer alive to intercede--as he had often done before--in behalf of those who assailed his life The sentence pronounced against the assassin was execrable--a crime against the memory of the great man whom it professed to avenge. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
  • Consequently it is certain that those who are near the Divine Court are allowed to intercede, and this intercession is approved by God It is even possible that the condition of those who have died in sin and unbelief may become changed; that is to say, they may become the object of pardon through the bounty of God, not through His justice; for bounty if giving without desert, and justice is giving what is deserved. —  Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era
 

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  1. Latin intercēdere, to intervene : inter-, inter- + cēdere, to go; see ked- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French intercéder = Spanish Portuguese interceder = Italian intercedere, from Latin intercedere, come between, intervene, interpose, become surety, etc., from inter, between, + cedere, go: see cede.
 

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