intercede
verb (used without object)
to act or interpose in behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble, as by pleading or petition.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Ought you not first to know whom you are interceding for?
From A House of Gentlefolk by Constance Garnett