Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TER-CES'SION, n. [Fr. from L. intercessio, from intercedo. See Intercede.]

The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconciliation; prayer or solicitation to one party in favor of another, sometimes against another. Your intercession now is needless grown; / Retire, and let me speak with her alone. Dryden. He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Is. liii.