What's the difference between intercede and intercession?

Intercede


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pass between; to intervene.
  • (v. i.) To act between parties with a view to reconcile differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead in behalf of another; to mediate; -- usually followed by with and for; as, I will intercede with him for you.
  • (v. t.) To be, to come, or to pass, between; to separate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Overall, the six neurotoxins were shown to be composed of highly conserved amino acid domains interceded with amino acid tracts exhibiting little overall similarity.
  • (2) It is unusual for an official of Dai's rank to intercede.
  • (3) With few exceptions, pulmonary complications in the immunocompromised host will proceed to death unless the clinician intercedes.
  • (4) This may be the opportunity for the profession to proceed with controlled quality assessment before outside agencies intercede.
  • (5) This technique also eliminates circumferential compression of the interceding tissues as well as providing easy access to the wound for daily care.
  • (6) Asked by Jon Snow whether he had interceded with the Saudis over the planned execution of the Shia activist Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Cameron admitted he himself had not raised the issue directly but the foreign secretary and the embassy had.
  • (7) These data were interpreted to indicate that: (a) the effect(s) of trypsin in reversing (or preventing) tolerance at the cellular level does not depend necessarily on the susceptibility of the tolerogenic moiety to the action of the enzyme, and (b) the generation of the tolerance-inducing signal involves metabolic cellular processes that can be delayed somewhat by low temperature leaving such cells relatively more susceptible to intercedent manipulations such as trypsinization.
  • (8) Andreotti, who had interceded on behalf of endless supplicants like a true padrino (godfather), did not use his power to pursue personal wealth or to enhance the prospects of his closest relatives.
  • (9) The data provided offer further evidence that these homologues can intercede in blood coagulation.
  • (10) These results suggest that some patients with arteriovenous malformations and without clinical deficits who are near a critical level of "near ischemia" may be thrown out of balance by an acute interceding event.
  • (11) Because children with CLP have additional difficulties (i.e., facial disfigurement, speech and language deficits, multiple surgeries), professionals should intercede to prevent or interrupt negative psychosocial outcomes, particularly for adolescent girls.
  • (12) New adjuncts include two promising surgical barriers, one absorbable (oxygenated regenerated cellulose, or Intercede) and one nonabsorbable (polytetrafluoroethylene, or Gore-Tex).
  • (13) Thus it is possible to suppress both clinical signs and pathology by interceding at several steps of the cell-mediated immune reaction.
  • (14) She calls for other closet prolifers to become involved by praying and interceding, becoming informed by contracting prolife groups, spreading the word, voting for prolife candidates, and educating local media and elected officials.
  • (15) Treatment efforts in the past have focused on attempts to prevent such injury by interceding during labor in term infants and improving neonatal care in preterm infants.
  • (16) Both local and long-distance dependencies were explored, as well as the effects of additional interceding words.
  • (17) A decade later, during a long siege involving the Montana Freemen in 1996, outside intermediaries were so common the FBI allowed a clutch of them, including a couple who went off script and were never invited to intercede again.
  • (18) The ability of traditional sex therapy to intercede successfully in these problems is discussed.
  • (19) Ordinary Russians do the same to Putin during a yearly phone-in (in this year’s show, he gave a schoolgirl a puppy, and offered to intercede for a young man whose girlfriend wouldn’t marry him).
  • (20) The proper use of new diagnostic tests may permit the physician to intercede effectively if these life-threatening diseases are suspected.

Intercession


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or (less often) against, another or others.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They might be changed by divine intervention, but not by human intercession.
  • (2) Eventually Mubarak recalled Shenouda to the papal seat after intercession by visiting clerics, including Graham Leonard , then Anglican bishop of London.
  • (3) Though Peres’s diplomatic intercession smoothed ruffled feathers, he still warned against a nuclear Iran “taking over the Middle East” and rejected the critical UN report into the Gaza war.
  • (4) Although her son Anthony was already living in the US, she was initially refused permission even to disembark, and was only allowed a day pass to spend that Christmas with her son on the intercession of Eleanor Roosevelt.
  • (5) The only solution is the intercession of an unbiased influence to work out the problem from a point of view that is unaffected by such turmoils which are often inherent in the system.
  • (6) A careful obstetrical history and examination of the mother, indication on the birth certificate of maternal drug abuse, and notification of health authorities (by birth certificate checking, among other ways) may send an early warning message to providers for intercession.
  • (7) However, there are occasions where the individual tooth, teeth, or the arches are so aligned that the pulpal, gingival, or osseous tissues would be jeopardized by the conventional restorative intercession.
  • (8) The midwives of the past failed to stop the growth of obstetrics, and their contemporaries through the intercession of the 1951 Midwifery Act attempted to block entry into the profession by male nurses.