Intervene vs Intercede - What's the difference?
intervene | intercede |
(ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
* De Quincey
To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened (i.e. between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action
(legal) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
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
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In intransitive terms the difference between intervene and intercede
is that intervene is to interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action while intercede is to act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.As verbs the difference between intervene and intercede
is that intervene is to come between, or to be between, persons or things while intercede is to plead on someone else's behalf.intervene
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Verb
- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
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intercede
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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.
