intermeddle
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- intermeddler noun
Etymology
Origin of intermeddle
1350–1400; inter- + meddle; replacing Middle English entremedlen < Anglo-French entremedler, Old French entremesler
Example Sentences
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"I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle."
From Time Magazine Archive
Is a statute less objection able which authorizes expenditure of Fed eral moneys to induce action in a field in which the United States has no power to intermeddle?
From Time Magazine Archive
With such bliss the stranger cannot intermeddle; but mothers who have had a child restored to them from the very borders of the unseen land will know what Mary Gifford felt.
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma
“What right has he to intermeddle in our affairs?” burst in Frederica; “a man whom neither our father nor mother ever trusted.”
From Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
You understand, my dear sir, that nothing would have tempted me to intermeddle in this affair, were the case precisely what you have supposed.
From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion
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