| 词组 | surcease |
| 释义 | surcease This word still occurs fairly often as a fancy or old-fashioned synonym of cessation or respite: • ... sensed the national desire for a surcease of anxiety —James D. Barber, Center Mag, January/February 1971 • Girls don't help, although an amateurish singer ... offers him surcease briefly —Hollis Alpert, Saturday Rev., 3 July 1971 • They offer surcease from the battering of the sun — Roger G. Kennedy, Smithsonian, November 1982 It is also sometimes used as a verb, although not as commonly as in centuries past: • There is a general surceasing of education as a means of producing cultured men and women —Jeanne L. Noble, in Threshold 1965, Ball State University, September 1965 Several usage commentators, dating back to Fowler 1926, have found surcease to be archaic as both noun and verb and have discouraged its use as an affectation. We certainly do not consider surcease to be archaic as a noun, and it is probably not archaic as a verb either, although verb use is very rare. |
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