Usually means: Prayer on behalf of another.
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  1. intercession: Merriam-Webster
  2. intercession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intercession: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intercession: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intercession: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intercession, intercession: Wordnik
  7. intercession: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intercession: Wiktionary
  9. intercession: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intercession: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intercession: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Intercession, intercession: Dictionary.com
  13. intercession: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Intercession, The Intercession: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Intercession: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. intercession: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. intercession: Rhymezone
  18. Intercession: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. intercession: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. intercession: FreeDictionary.org
  21. intercession: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. intercession: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. intercession: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. intercession: Medical dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Intercession: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intercession: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See intercessional as well.)

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noun:  The act of intervening or mediating between two parties.
noun:  A prayer to God on behalf of another person; especially, such a prayer offered by a heavenly saint on behalf of a mere mortal who has prayed to the saint for such help.

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