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interventrix

interventrix [ML] 1 intercessor, pleader (f.): a (with God, Christ); b (w. person). a Deo per sanctam ~icem Editham gratias cum sollemnibus donis rependit Gosc. Edith 279; c1137 ora ‥ Annam ut ‥ apud Christum ‥ pro peccatis meis sedula mediatrix et propitia ~ix existat Osb. Clar. Anna 46r (= Id. Ep. 12 p. 79); tantum illam apud Deum mereatur ~icem V. Chris. Marky. 57; [Æðeldreða] pro vestris apud Deum excessibus ~ix assidua Lib. Eli. II 133 p. 215; eam [sc. Dei genitricem Mariam] ~icem apud Dominum ‥ habere promeruit Chr. Wallingf. 41; ut apud filium suum [sc. beate virginis] piam ~icem ipsam mereantur invenire Obs. Barnwell 106.  b [presbyteri] reginam adeunt et ~icem flagitant; illa ‥ timore constricta ab interventione arcetur Eadmer HN 203. 2 (as f. adj.) pleading, interceding (on person’s behalf; in quot., of tongue). quae peteret videbat, sed qua peteret ~ix lingua defecerat Gosc. Aug. Maj. I 47. 85D.

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