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Intermediary   /ˌɪnərmˈidiɛri/  /ˌɪntərmˈidiɛri/   Listen
Intermediary

noun
(pl. intermediaries)
1.
A negotiator who acts as a link between parties.  Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediator, mediator.






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"Intermediary" Quotes from Famous Books



... Just so! That is a point to which I am coming. Now, about this renegade, this Braxton Wyatt. You say he is the man who drew the maps and who has been the intermediary in this whole nefarious scheme. Maps could be drawn, of course, for a purpose not wicked, but if they could be produced, and above all if Alvarez had made any notes upon them in his own handwriting, they would go far to help. If not proof, they would ...
— The Free Rangers - A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi • Joseph A. Altsheler

... were yawning to swallow me up. The only conclusion I would fain draw from all this is that the unconscious effort towards what is good and true in the universe has its throw of the dice through the intermediary of each one of us. There is no combination but what comes up, quaternions like any other. We may disarrange the designs of Providence in respect to ourselves; but we have next to no influence upon their accomplishment. Quid habes quod non accepisti? The dogma of grace ...
— Recollections of My Youth • Ernest Renan

... acted as the agent of the Duke of Devonshire, grandfather of the present duke, and himself on the best of personal terms with Mr. Punch. And I have proof that he exerted all his influence in favour of Bradbury and Evans's great new venture, through the intermediary of Charles Dickens. "Paxton," writes Dickens in one of his letters bearing upon the subject that lie before me, dated October, 1845—a few months before the launching of the "Daily News"—"has the command of every railway and railway influence in England and abroad, except ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... in any case, after some little time, we learn by experience that happiness and pleasure are a fata morgana, which, visible from afar, vanish as we approach; that, on the other hand, suffering and pain are a reality, which makes its presence felt without any intermediary, and for its effect, stands in no need of illusion or the play of ...
— Counsels and Maxims - From The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer

... true spirit the principles proclaimed by Gregory VII. This states, among other things, that the Roman pontiff can alone be called Universal, that his name is unique in the world, that he ought to be judged by none; and it ascribes to him, without the intervention of any intermediary, the supreme and immediate power in all executive, ...
— The Church and the Empire - Being an Outline of the History of the Church - from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 • D. J. Medley



Words linked to "Intermediary" :   conciliator, matcher, translator, make-peace, interpreter, matchmaker, diplomat, pacifier, intercessor, reconciler, moderator, harmonizer, harmoniser, peacemaker, marriage broker, treater, negotiant, negotiator, second hand, mediatrix



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