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countable and uncountable, plural deceases
(formal) Death, departure from life. quotations examples
So should that beauty which you hold in leaseFind no determination: then you wereYourself again after yourself's decease […]
1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 13”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850
third-person singular simple present deceases, present participle deceasing, simple past and past participle deceased
(now rare) To die. quotations
After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]