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Intervention vs Interceding - What's the difference?

intervention | interceding |

As nouns the difference between intervention and interceding

is that intervention is intervention (act of intervening) while interceding is an intercession.

As a verb interceding is

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intervention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.}}
  • (US, legal) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
  • An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.

    • Derived terms

    * divine intervention * interventionism * macrointervention * microintervention

    interceding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intercession.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!—that one strivest, this one jettest all in vain! In vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun