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surcease

[sur-sees] / sɜrˈsis /


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So if there is surcease from sorrow, and my name is attached to it, thank God.”

From New York Times Mar. 21, 2023

I'll hope for just a few years to spend not wishing every day were over just a weekend, and a momentary surcease.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2018

As report after report indicates, he attacks, lashes out, mocks, tweets, pummels, charges and complains, showering calumny on others even as he praises his achievements without surcease.

From Salon Mar. 6, 2017

For the weary pedagogue, home from The Gallic War, it provides surcease of solecism and a welcome chuckle.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I’ve gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food. Now we must run. I must leave this house. It has terrible associations.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

If praise from man surceased, from your broad chests That God would perfect praise, and, when ye died, Resound it from yon rocks that gird the bay: God knoweth all things.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

In laughter spasms ye reel, or shout applause, Music surceased.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

The Montanines also that remayned at Siena, liued in quyet, wythoute chalenge or quarell of their aduersaries, howbeit mutuall talke and haunt of others company vtterly surceased.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

In that large lustre all our haste surceased,    The sail seemed fain to furl,  The silent steersman landward turned,   And ship and shore set breast to breast.

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney

Heart, did we not think that she Had surceased her tyranny?

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis




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