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INTERVEN'TION, n. [L. interventio.]

1. A state of coming or being between; interposition. Light is not interrupted by the intervention of a transparent body.

2. Agency of persons between persons; interposition; mediation; any interference that may affect the interests of others.

Let us decide our quarrels at home without the intervention of a foreign power.

3. Agency of means or instruments; as, effects are produced by the intervention of natural causes.

4. Interposition in favor of another; a voluntary undertaking of one party for another. A bill of exchange may be accepted by the intervention of a third person in behalf of the drawer or of one of the indorsers.
1913 Definition
Intervention (intervention)
n.(?)
In`ter*ven"tion
[L. interventio an interposition: cf. F. intervention.]

  1. The act of intervening; interposition.

    Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. Holder.

  2. Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation.

    Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power. Sir W. Temple.

  3. 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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