Meanings
nounsupergression (countable and uncountable, plural supergressions)
plural supergressions
- countableobsoleteuncountablealchemyexcess, exaltation
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.
16th C., Thomas Norton, Ordinall (in Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Brittanicum) - archaiccountableuncountableThe process of going too far, doing more than what is required; a transgression https://books.google.com.au/books?id=F_xxNRT1VW0C&pg=PA1092&dq=supergression&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1_sb43cvRAhXJULwKHV_2B2YQ6AEIKTAD#v=onepage&q=supergression&f=false
the most oppressed soule, may raise it selfe above those exaltations, and supergressions of sin
17th C., John Donne, Sermon III
Origin
- Latinsupergressio
- Englishsupergression
From Latin supergressio.
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