intercessor vs intermediate

intercessor

noun
  • A middleman, intermediary 

  • A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see. 

  • A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another. 

intermediate

noun
  • An intermediary. 

  • Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product. 

  • Anything in an intermediate position. 

adj
  • Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range. 

verb
  • To mediate, to be an intermediate. 

  • To arrange, in the manner of a broker. 

How often have the words intercessor and intermediate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )