intercessions
Appeals on another's behalf
Intercessions are acts of intervening on someone else's behalf, typically through prayer or appeal to authority.
In religious contexts, intercessions are prayers asking God to help others: The priest offered intercessions for the sick and suffering.
More broadly, any plea made for another person: Despite her intercessions with the judge, her brother received the maximum sentence.
Humble plea for help
- petitionFormal written appeal
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- orisonFormal devotional petition
- novenaNine-day prayer practice
litany · entreaty · pleading · appeal · imploration · beseeching · solicitation · rosary
Non-court binding dispute resolution
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
- conciliationResolving disputes through dialogue
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
facilitation · peacemaking · go-between · broker · mediator · arbiter · intermediary · liaison
Effortless beauty of motion
- providenceDivine protective care
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- blessingPrayer seeking divine favor
sanctification · absolution · atonement · propitiation · forgiveness · mercy · deliverance · expiation
Urgent heartfelt request
- representationDepiction or likeness
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
- championingVigorously supporting a cause
- sponsorshipFunded endorsement arrangement
patronage · endorsement · backing · support · defense · proxy · deputizing · vouching
supplication
Humble plea for help
- petitionFormal written appeal
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- orisonFormal devotional petition
novena · litany · entreaty · pleading · appeal · imploration · beseeching · solicitation · rosary · vespers
arbitration
Non-court binding dispute resolution
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
- conciliationResolving disputes through dialogue
reconciliation · facilitation · peacemaking · go-between · broker · mediator · arbiter · intermediary · liaison · third-party
grace
Effortless beauty of motion
- providenceDivine protective care
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
blessing · sanctification · absolution · atonement · propitiation · forgiveness · mercy · deliverance · expiation · remission
pleading
Urgent heartfelt request
- representationDepiction or likeness
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
- championingVigorously supporting a cause
sponsorship · patronage · endorsement · backing · support · defense · proxy · deputizing · vouching
- pleasplea, pleas, please, prayers, entreaty
- devotionsdaily devotions, daily devotion, devotional, devotionals, devotions
- prayersOur Father, morning prayers, Lord's Prayer, daily prayers, evening prayers
- worship elementsprayer, sermon, homily, hymn singing, scripture reading
- liturgical prayersLord's Prayer, collects, litanies, litany, benedictions
- liturgical textsmissal, breviary, lectionary, psalter, prayer book
intercessionsaccusations
Claims of fault
condemnations · denunciations · imprecations · maledictions · prosecutions
intercessionsabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
neglect · non-intervention · indifference · inaction · apathy
- divine intercessionGod acting in events