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Intercessor meaning
A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another. | A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another. | Especially: a heavenly saint who intercedes (with God) on behalf of a mere mortal.
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I went to pray as an intercessor for Loveland and to observe what was going on in the mayor’s race.
Wells still keeps in contact with eight friends from first grade and is an intercessor on a weekly prayer line.
Declared “venerable” by Pope Paul VI in 1975, Talbot is now invoked as an intercessor by a number of groups that minister to those suffering from addiction, including the Calix Society, which was founded in the U.S. some 20 years after Talbot’s death.
We called him "Nash" after the intercessor Daniel Nash, who co-labored with Charles Finney during the Second Great Awakening.
In opposition to the rational approach to divine understanding that the scholastics adopted, Bernard would preach an immediate faith, in which the intercessor was the Virgin Mary.
It might stem from the 12th-century Old French term safran, which comes from the Latin word safranum main or from Arabic, az-za'faran, having unknown origin. citation Safranum comes from the Persian intercessor za'farān.
Nasser was determined to establish the independence of the army from the monarchy, and with Amer as the intercessor, resolved to field a nominee for the Free Officers.
The Romans called mediators by a variety of names, including internuncius, medium, intercessor, philantropus, interpolator, conciliator, interlocutor, interpres, and finally mediator.
The three (Elihu is not mentioned) are told to make a burnt offering with Job as their intercessor, "for only to him will I show favour".