Definition of Interposition

1. Noun. The action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts.

Exact synonyms: Interjection, Interpellation, Interpolation
Generic synonyms: Break, Disruption, Gap, Interruption
Derivative terms: Interject, Interpolate, Interpose

2. Noun. The act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others.
Exact synonyms: Intervention
Generic synonyms: Emplacement, Locating, Location, Placement, Position, Positioning
Derivative terms: Interpose

Definition of Interposition

1. n. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.

Definition of Interposition

1. Noun. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. ¹

2. Noun. The thing interposed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Interposition

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interposition

interpolymeric
interpolymers
interponent
interponents
interpopulation
interposable
interposal
interposals
interpose
interposed
interposer
interposers
interposes
interposing
interposit
interposition (current term)
interposition arthroplasty
interpositions
interpositive
interpositives
interposits
interpositus nucleus
interposure
interposures
interpret
interpretability
interpretable
interpretably
interpretament
interpretaments

Literary usage of Interposition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The diplomatic protection of citizens abroad or the law of international claims by Edwin Montefiore Borchard (1915)
"unduly delay justice, in which event the government's right of interposition rests on the denial of justice alone and disregards the fact that the claim had ..."

2. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... interposition of a Those parts of Asia and America, which are BOW disjoined by the ... interposition; intervention ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The right of the appellee to the interposition of equity by way of injunction ... Was Sutherland entitled to invoke the interposition of a court of equity; ..."

4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1817)
"Mr. Brougham's motion for interposition ... nil chosen tit fhe interposition of England. On this footing of intimate connection яп<1 conjoined interests, ..."

5. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1882)
"... however, which theoretically call for the interposition of equity on account of such circumstances of bad faith, as well as other forms of fraud, ..."

6. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1881)
"Upon the same principle, neither the interposition of a trust estate to preserve contingent remainders, between the estate for life and the limitation to ..."

7. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"... the interposition of third persons who become the ostensible purchasers does not apply to cases where the purchaser has bona fide purchased for himself, ..."

8. Natural Theology by William Paley (1826)
"Of sensible interposition we may be permitted to remark, that a Providence, always and certainly distinguishable, would be neither more nor lev than ..."

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