supergression

English

Etymology

From Latin supergressio

Noun

supergression (plural supergressions)

  1. (obsolete, alchemy) excess, exaltation
    • 16th C., Thomas Norton, Ordinall (in Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Brittanicum)‎:
      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.
  2. (archaic) The process of going too far, doing more than what is required; a transgression
    • 17th C., John Donne, Sermon III‎:
      the most oppressed soule, may raise it selfe above those exaltations, and supergressions of sin
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