supergression

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin supergressio.

Noun

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supergression (countable and uncountable, plural supergressions)

  1. (obsolete, alchemy) excess, exaltation
    • 16th C., Thomas Norton, Ordinall (in Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Brittanicum)[1]:
      And soe with long leasure it will waste, / And not with bubbling made in haste: / For doubt of perrills many more then one, / And for supergression of our stone.
  2. (archaic) The process of going too far, doing more than what is required; a transgression [2]
    • 17th C., John Donne, Sermon III[3]:
      the most oppressed soule, may raise it selfe above those exaltations, and supergressions of sin