supergression

English

Etymology

From Latin supergressio.

Noun

supergression (countable and uncountable, plural supergressions)

1. (obsolete, alchemy) excess, exaltation
   • 16th C., Thomas Norton, Ordinall (in Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Brittanicum)‎^[1]:

     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 [2]
   • 17th C., John Donne, Sermon III‎^[3]:

     the most oppressed soule, may raise it selfe above those exaltations, and supergressions of sin