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

Her function is to proceed about the submarine at canter, bearing messages, coffee and surcease from sorrow.

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 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 William Painter

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

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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

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 Sidney Lanier