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The action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
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interposition
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Interposition \In`ter*po*si"tion\ (?; 277), n. [L. interpositio a putting between, insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See Interpone , Position .] The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or ...
WordNet
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n. the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts [syn: interjection , interpolation , interpellation ] the act of interposing one thing between or among others
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French interposicion (12c.), from Latin interpositionem (nominative interpositio ), noun of action from past participle stem of interponere "to put between, place among; put forward," from inter- (see inter- ) + ponere "to put, place" ...
Wikipedia
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Interposition is a claimed right of a U.S. state to oppose actions of the federal government that the state deems unconstitutional. Under the theory of interposition, a state assumes the right to "interpose" itself between the federal government and the ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2 The thing interposed.
Usage examples of interposition.
But we are still assured by monuments of brass and marble, by the Imperial medals, and by the Antonine column, that neither the prince nor the people entertained any sense of this signal obligation, since they unanimously attribute their deliverance to the providence of Jupiter, and to the interposition of Mercury.
When Barnett made his interposition speech on September 13, 104AN AMERICAN INSURRECTION Bobby Kennedy and his Department of Justice team assumed that Mississippi state officials and police forces could try to block Meredith and the marshals, possibly triggering widespread public disorder, which would require a much larger military force.
That they did so is to be found in the debates both of the General and the State Conventions, where State interposition was often declared to be the bulwark against usurpation.
Providential interpositions, read in these words an indisputable sign of salvation.
Besides the occasional prodigies, which might sometimes be effected by the immediate interposition of the Deity when he suspended the laws of Nature for the service of religion, the Christian church, from the time of the apostles and their first disciples, ^73 has claimed an uninterrupted succession of miraculous powers, the gift of tongues, of vision, and of prophecy, the power of expelling daemons, of healing the sick, and of raising the dead.
It has been suggested that the major ice ages on our planet, which recur every hundred million years or so, may be due to the interposition of interstellar matter between the Sun and the Earth.
I have a dream That one day-down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
He was against an immediate complaint to government, and thought the proprietaries should first be personally appli'd to, who might possibly be induc'd by the interposition and persuasion of some private friends, to accommodate matters amicably.