Crossword clues for intercessor
intercessor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intercessor \In`ter*ces"sor\, n. [L., a surety: cf. F. intercesseur.]
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One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator.
One who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them.
One who pleads in behalf of another.
--Milton.
(Eccl.) A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Latin intercessor "one who intervenes," agent noun from intercedere (see intercede). Related: Intercessory.
Wiktionary
n. A person who intercedes; a mediator
WordNet
n. a negotiator who acts as a link between parties [syn: mediator, go-between, intermediator, intermediary]
Usage examples of "intercessor".
It was the Intercessor that kept the Archai from sweeping over Laut as they did all other islands of the kingdom!
Christ as Pantokrator, the Paraclete or Intercessor, the stylized face expressionless, the enormous powerful eyes staring down at them.
But they understood each other too well to bother with that, and instead they made their final arrangements and sat a few minutes in silence, gazing around the tiny church with its little dome and its darkened fresco of the Paraclete, the Intercessor, sharing the coolness and the quiet of the place, a moment of calm for both of them.
The words of power, technically voces mysticae, are the language of demiurges who act as intercessors between humans and the Gods.
Which, if so it be, is a manifest token of the superabundance of the goodness of God to usward, inasmuch as He regards not our error but the sincerity of our faith, and hearkens unto us when, mistaking one who is at enmity with Him for a friend, we have recourse to him, as to one holy indeed, as our intercessor for His grace.