Intercede vs Interpose - What's the difference?
intercede | interpose |
To plead on someone else's behalf.
To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.
* Milton
To pass between; to intervene.
* Sir M. Hale
To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
* Cowper
To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
In intransitive terms the difference between intercede and interpose
is that intercede is to act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate while interpose is to intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.intercede
English
Verb
(interced)- I to the lords will intercede , not doubting their favourable ear.
- He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived.
References
interpose
English
Verb
(en-verb)- to interpose a screen between the eye and the light
- Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations.
- What watchful cares do interpose themselves / Betwixt your eyes and night?
- (Milton)
- long hid by interposing hill or wood.