Excession
noun
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Noun
- 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?"
Example
More examples"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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