Definition of Intercessory

1. a. Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession; interceding; as, intercessory prayer.

Definition of Intercessory

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to intercession ¹

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Definition of Intercessory

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intercessory

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intercessory (current term)
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Literary usage of Intercessory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fundamental Questions by Henry Churchill King (1917)
"It is not possible to doubt Christ's practice of intercessory prayer. ... Is there any peculiar difficulty involved in intercessory prayer ? ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In order to realize this consummation in harmony with the Lord's intercessory prayer they decided to reject all party names for. those given in the New ..."

3. Moral Sketches of Prevailing Opinions and Manners, Foreign and Domestic by Hannah More (1820)
"These heaven-implanted affections are never brought into exercise more properly, nor with more lively feelings, than in intercessory prayer. ..."

4. Catalogue of Early Prints in the British Museum by William Hughes Willshire (1879)
"|N the present and following sheet (D. 73) are represented the fourteen intercessory Saints and Martyrs commonly reverenced durin;; the fifteenth century. ..."

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