excession

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English

Noun

excession (countable and uncountable, plural excessions)

  1. An act or state of exceeding something; excess.
    • 2012, James Hatley, Suffering Witness, page 175:
      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?