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surceases

surceases is the plural of surcease.

surceases is the third-person singular simple present indicative of surcease.

Meaning of surcease

Noun

surcease (countable and uncountable, plural surceases)

  1. Cessation; stop, stopping; end. Respite, intermission.
    • And first of all, it is more then time, there were an ende and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writting latelie entertained, whereby matter of religion is handled in the stile of the stage.1589, Francis Bacon, “An advertisment touchinge the controversies of the Church of England”, in Frank J. Burgoyne, editor, Northumberland Manuscripts, London: Longmans, Green & Co, published 1904...

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Questions about surceases

What is surceases the plural of?
Surceases is the plural of surcease.

Words near surceases in the dictionary

  1. Surbiton
  2. surburbanite
  3. surceasance
  4. surcease
  5. surceased
  6. surceases
  7. surceasing
  8. surcession
  9. surcessions
  10. surcharge
  11. surchargeable

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