Intercede vs Reconcile - What's the difference?
intercede | reconcile |
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 restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
To make things compatible or consistent.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
As verbs the difference between intercede and reconcile
is that intercede is to plead on someone else's behalf while reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.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
reconcile
English
(reconciliation)Verb
(reconcil)- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to reconcile differences
- Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.