surcease

So if there is surcease from sorrow, and my name is attached to it, thank God.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

I'll hope for just a few years to spend not wishing every day were over just a weekend, and a momentary surcease.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018

As report after report indicates, he attacks, lashes out, mocks, tweets, pummels, charges and complains, showering calumny on others even as he praises his achievements without surcease.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2017

For the weary pedagogue, home from The Gallic War, it provides surcease of solecism and a welcome chuckle.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I’ve gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food. Now we must run. I must leave this house. It has terrible associations.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

In laughter spasms ye reel, or shout applause, Music surceased.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere

The morris-dancers stood still—the hobby-horse surceased his capering—pipe and tabor were mute, and "silence, like a heavy cloud," seemed to descend on the once noisy rabble.

From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott

Then the people being restrained from their fury, the waters surceased from their fury also.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

The Montanines also that remayned at Siena, liued in quyet, wythoute chalenge or quarell of their aduersaries, howbeit mutuall talke and haunt of others company vtterly surceased.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

Forthwith the wind surceased, the ocean became silent, the tempest is appeased, and a great calm is made.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary