supercession

supercession

English

Noun

supercession (plural supercessions)

1. An act of superceding.
   • 1834, Arthur Wellesley, The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K.G. During His Various Campaigns from 1799 to 1818:

     But this supercession has ruined all my prospects, founded upon any service that I may have rendered.

   • 1960, Social and economic impact of highways, page 38:

     When the value of the land for a projected new use is greater than both the cost of removing or rehabilitating improvements and the net-revenue in its old use, supercession of use can occur on improved land.

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

     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;

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