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/ˌɪntərvˈɛntʃən/ /ˌɪnərvˈɛntʃən/ Listen

noun

Intervention n.

The act of intervening; interposition. "Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane."

Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; the intervention of one state in the affairs of another is typically unwelcome by the state being intervened in, but some cases of mediation between states may be called intervention. Opposed to nonintervention. "Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power."

(Civil Law) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Brahmans are undoubtedly the most powerful and the most able of all the Brahmans of the Deccan. A curious legend ascribes their origin to the miraculous intervention of Parashurama, the sixth Avatar of the god Vishnu, who finding no Brahmans to release him by the accustomed ritual from the defilement of his earthly labours, dragged on to shore the bodies of fourteen barbarians that he had found washed up from the ocean, burnt ...

— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol

... intervention was principally or altogether sought for the healing of the sick by means of divination founded on dreams, were scattered over Greece, Italy, Egypt, and other countries. As regards those of Egypt, it may be remarked, that although many of the Egyptians believed there ...

— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian

... other. If you are left longer to yourselves, you will kill yourselves in three years without understanding each other any better. Your history, moreover, proves that your civil wars have never been finished unless by the efficacious intervention of France. I shall therefore be mediator in your quarrels, but my mediation will be an active one, such as becomes the great nation in whose name I speak. All the powers will be dissolved. The Senate alone, assembled ...

— Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7 • M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt

... told the story of the intervention of the tiger in their behalf, and said that afterward an Indian lady had succored them, hinting that at the end of the war it was probable that Ned would present ...

— In Times of Peril • G. A. Henty

... of my powers, the fate to which I was doomed, but which I did not deserve. I had hoped that the malice of my foe was exhausted; but I now perceived that my precautions had been wise, for that the intervention of an ocean was insufficient ...

— Wieland; or The Transformation - An American Tale • Charles Brockden Brown

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