decession
English
Etymology
From Latin decessio, from decedere (“to depart”). See decease (noun).
Pronunciation
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Noun
decession (plural decessions)
- (obsolete) departure; decrease
- (Can we date this quote?), Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy.
- So implying the necessity of a bishop to govern in their absence or decession any ways.
- (Can we date this quote?), Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy.
Antonyms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “decession”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)