Intervene vs Plead - What's the difference?
intervene | plead |
(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 present an argument, especially in a legal case.
* Bible, Job xvi. 21
To beg, beseech, or implore.
As verbs the difference between intervene and plead
is that intervene is (ambitransitive) to come between, or to be between, persons or things while plead is to present an argument, especially in a legal case.intervene
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Verb
- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
- (Abbott)
plead
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Verb
- O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
