Meanings
nounexcession (countable and uncountable, plural excessions)
plural excessions
- countableuncountableAn act or state of exceeding something; excess.
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?
2012, James Hatley, Suffering Witness, page 175
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