What's the difference between intercession and intercessory?
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.
Intercessory
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession; interceding; as, intercessory prayer.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data suggest that intercessory prayer to the Judeo-Christian God has a beneficial therapeutic effect in patients admitted to a CCU.
(2) The therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (IP) to the Judeo-Christian God, one of the oldest forms of therapy, has had little attention in the medical literature.
(3) Over ten months, 393 patients admitted to the CCU were randomized, after signing informed consent, to an intercessory prayer group (192 patients) or to a control group (201 patients).