Meaning of mediary | Babel Free

Definitions

An intermediary or go-between; Something or someone that passes information, instructions, or influence between one person or thing and another person or thing.

Examples

“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.”

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