Definitions for interposition

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interposition in·ter·po·si·tion

Spelling: [in-ter-puh-zish-uh n]

IPA: /ˌɪn tər pəˈzɪʃ ən/

Interposition is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 929 anagrams from letters in interposition (eiiinnooprstt).

Definitions for interposition

noun

1. the act or fact of interposing or the condition of being interposed.
2. something interposed.
3. the doctrine that an individual state of the U.S. may oppose any federal action it believes encroaches on its sovereignty.

Origin of interposition

1375-1425; late Middle English interposicio(u)n Latin interpositiōn- (stem of interpositiō), equivalent to interposit(us) (past participle of interpōnere to place between) + -iōn- Examples for interposition

Conscious that his interposition could be of no possible avail, he fled for life.

All would have been irretrievably lost had it not been for the interposition of Fabius.

Even this interposition failed to put the irate Harris off his purpose.

The disappearance of a star by the interposition of the moon is called an "occultation."

It was, however, at last granted with difficulty on my interposition.

Then we, too, looked at each other with eyes that confessed an interposition.

There is nothing else in it which ought to call for this interposition.

Only the interposition of friends prevented their meeting on the field.

The clergy this time invoked the interposition of Government.

Melissy seized on her father joyfully as an interposition of Providence.