surcease

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

With its old-fashioned words like surcease and travail and its unembarrassed talk of caring, Guterson's story becomes a kind of affirmation of open-hearted faith.

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

The morris-dancers stood still—the hobby-horse surceased his capering—pipe and tabor were mute, and "silence, like a heavy cloud," seemed to descend on the once noisy rabble.

From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott

Then the people being restrained from their fury, the waters surceased from their fury also.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

Forthwith the wind surceased, the ocean became silent, the tempest is appeased, and a great calm is made.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

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 Aubrey De Vere

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

From New Poems by Francis Thompson