surseance

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː(ɹ)siəns/

From Middle English *surseance (not found), from Old French surseance (“suspicion; delay”), from surseoir (“to delay”), from supersedo. More at surcease.

surseance

1. (obsolete) peace (state of not fighting) or quiet (silence, or calmness)
   • 1641, Francis Bacon, A Wise and Moderate Discourse, Concerning Church-Affaires:

     all preachers , especially such as be of good temper , and have wisdom with conscience, ought to inculcate and beat upon a peace, silence, and surseance

• “surseance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

surseance (countable and uncountable, plural surseances)

1. (law, in the Netherlands) The phase of reaching an agreement with the creditors of a bankrupt company.

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