Excession

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An act or state of exceeding something; excess. countable, uncountable

    "In the light of the considerations raised in those chapters, could not the following question be posed: in a world of dates, all of which exceed mourning, are there not dates that exceed even this excession?"

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"In the light of the considerations raised in those chapters, could not the following question be posed: in a world of dates, all of which exceed mourning, are there not dates that exceed even this excession?"

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