surcession

plural surcessions

1. A complete end or halt; a surcease.

   Put another way, our ascent to Consciousness will result in the surcession of death.

   2000, Alan M. Laibelman, The Other Perennial Philosophy: A Metaphysical Dialectic, page 196

   3 more examples

   There are many family and hereditary diseases, such as amaurotic family idiocy, congenital spastic diplegia, progressive muscular dystrophy, for whose prevention no other means have been suggested save the radical measure of surcession of procreation.

   1900, Joseph Collins, The Treatment of diseases of the nervous system, page 28

   In this condition asperity contact virtually ceases, the sensing gauge face indicating surcession of wear.

   1965, College of Aeronautics (Cranfield, England), CoA Report Aero - Issue 184, page 3

   Yet, as Douglas already noted, ritual does not only function and empower through supercession or surcession of ambiguity: its transformative powers are most effective when the ambiguities of anomaly or the chaotic are incorporated, emphasized and employed within ritual;

   1997, Klaus Peter Köpping, The Games of Gods and Man: Essays in Play and Performance