intermediacy
Example Sentences
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Edwin was often astonished at the increasing resemblance of Clara to her aunt, with whom, thanks to the unconscious intermediacy of babies, she was even indeed quite intimate.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
It is now alleged that departed persons need not exert influence through their dead bones alone, nor yet only by their supposed intermediacy with higher powers.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Seemingly, features of color mentioned above as diagnostic of the two subspecies are either present or absent and there is no tendency toward intermediacy in color in the population from 3 mi.
From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. Packard
As the number of duplicate determiners increases it can be readily seen that the number of apparent blends of different degrees of intermediacy between the two extremes would rapidly increase.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
Her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by Natasha's intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then thanked him for his love.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
