mediary
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An intermediary or go-between; Something or someone that passes information, instructions, or influence between one person or thing and another person or thing.
adj
adj
Having a primary hue (red, blue, or gold), as opposed to one that can be created by mixing colors with primary hues.
adj
Defining or inferring a generalization or category of meaning.
Example Sentences
- "The reason why fear and obedience figure prominently in Hobbes's notion of covenant is that the model for it is biblical; more precisely, it is based on his reading of the covenant between God, his mediary Moses, and the Israelites in Exodus."
- "In this last work, Freud introduced his tripartite division of the psyche into three agencies: the id, the repository of instinctual impulse; the ego, the executive mediary between the drives of the id and the external world; and the superego, an independent sector of the ego given shape by the social proscriptions and ideals the child internalizes during its development."
- "Because these uprisings were work-related and directed at employers, the state acted as mediary."
- "Sixth, when no mediary is present, each interaction participant can be said to form part of the other's environment."
- "I have made several three vision glasses for my patients requiring distant, near and mediary vision with signal success."
- "The mediary role played by CNMs between the two systems is exemplified in that historically the “supervision and training of granny midwives [w]as the major responsibility for which the first American-trained nurse-midwives were prepared”"