INTERCESSIONS Synonyms

• earnest or urgent request

• attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates

• (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial

• request for a sum of money

• take a court case to a higher court for review

• request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection

• be attractive to

• challenge (a decision)

• cite as an authority; resort to

• earnest or urgent request

• a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

• reverent petition to a deity

• write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing

• a humble request for help from someone in authority

• (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer)

• an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed

• the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)

• reverent petition to a deity

• earnest or urgent request

• a fixed text used in praying

• someone who prays to God

• a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

• the verbal act of requesting

• express the need or desire for

• ask (a person) to do something

• inquire for (information)

• an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status

• request for a sum of money

• the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money)

• a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service

• a humble request for help from someone in authority

• the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)

• the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)

• a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

• the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

• (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings

• care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)