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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of surcease.

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Examples

  • He was apt to have these sudden surceases, following upon the intensities of his earlier interest; though he seemed always to have the notion of making something more of Colonel

    Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

  • He was apt to have these sudden surceases, following upon the intensities of his earlier interest; though he seemed always to have the notion of making something more of Colonel

    My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

  • It’s prayers in layers all the thumping time, begor, the young gloria’s gang voices the old doxologers, in the suburrs of the heavenly gardens, once we shall have passed, after surceases, all serene through neck and necklike Derby and June to our snug eternal retribution’s reward (the scorchhouse).

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • “The house of Tillietudlem,” answered the lady, “hath ever been open to the servants of his majesty, and I hope that the stones of it will no longer rest on each other when it surceases to be as much at their command as at ours.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • "The house of Tillietudlem," answered the lady, "hath ever been open to the servants of his majesty, and I hope that the stones of it will no longer rest on each other when it surceases to be as much at their command as at ours.

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • "The house of Tillietudlem," answered the lady, "hath ever been open to the servants of his majesty, and I hope that the stones of it will no longer rest on each other when it surceases to be as much at their command as at ours.

    Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

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