surcease
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈsɜrˌsiːs/
- Archaic
:
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- If the Soviets would not take up the challenge, so much the better for the Reagan administration's public relations position and panting governments in Belgium, Holland, and West Germany seeking surcease from their anxious electorates.
- surcease from pain
Examples
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Vainly I had sought to borrow from my books, surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore.
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For ninety years, the blood has flowed with no sign of surcease.
Blog text (8) -
A brief surcease from struggle.
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After work, Forrest found no surcease in the girls with whom he had grown up.
Fiction book (1997) -
Be merciful and give her surcease.
Fiction book (2001) -
The Black professional male comes home hoping to receive surcease from the tensions and pressures of the workday.
Academic text (1990) -
Yet the mimetic component of the speaker's character is highly restricted; his main trait is his desire for surcease.
Academic text (1990) -
We are stumbling through the foothills of affection, back through time, back to the beginning before Jack and Jill went up the hill, before you met him, before you loved him, where love ceases and there is surcease from pain.
Fiction book (1996) -
No doubt she was aiming for my cheek, as she's often insisted, but you'll understand when I say that the pleasure of that moment of surcease was ineffable.
Fiction book (1996) -
After months of hard work, she finally found a surcease from her stress during the peaceful vacation.
Synonyms
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1.0
An act when something ends or pauses
29
7.2
The end of something that is happening
2
6.3
Stopping something for a short time or forever
Antonyms
How Complete
- Formal
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4.7
- Archaic
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9.9
310
1.0
109
2.3
99
3.0
192
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Surcease comes from the old parts sur- 'over' and cease 'stop'. So, surcease is like a complete stopping or end, which is why it means a 'cessation'.