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intercessor

noun
/ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌsɛsə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Late 15th century, from Latin intercessor, from Latin intercēdō, from inter (“between”) + cēdō (“to go”) (English cede), literally “go-between”.

  1. derived from cede)
  2. derived from intercēdō
  3. derived from intercessor

Definitions

  1. A person who intercedes

    A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another.

  2. A middleman, intermediary

    • Kings were revered, in many cases not merely as priests, that is, as intercessors between man and god, but as themselves gods

  3. A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at intercessor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at intercessor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at intercessor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA