intermediacy

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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 Packard, Robert L.

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 Guyer, Michael F.

Several of the aspirants to Ice-Heart's hand had been chosen by them and conveyed to the neighborhood of the palace by their intermediacy from remote lands.

From A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others by Schayer, Julia Thompson von Stosch

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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

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 Tolstoy, Leo, graf