Decease Meaning
/dɪˈsiːs/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounDeath, departure from life.
verbTo die.
Sentence Examples
The decease of the king was mourned.
Upon his decease, she inherited.
The lawyer contacted the heirs after the client's untimely decease.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The family mourned the sudden ____ of their beloved grandfather.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the king was mourned.
Word Origin & History
From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination: then you were
Yourself 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, →OCLC:
"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, →OCLC:
"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 […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The family mourned the sudden ____ of their beloved grandfather.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the king was mourned.