rare. Also -cedence. [f. SUPERSEDE + -ENCE; cf. med.L. supersedentia (F. surséance).] = SUPERSESSION.
1793. Hamilton, Wks. (1886), VII. 79. The supersedence of the exercise of those functions … being a measure of great delicacy and magnitude.
1834. H. O’Brien, Round Towers Irel., 363. St. Patrick … having established Christianity here [sc. in Ireland], in supercedence of a religion, the most prominent symbols of which were snakes, cockatrices, and serpents.
1882. Rep. Ho. Repr. Prec. Met. U.S., 597. The supersedence of Cornish rollers was … a natural sequence of improved mechanism and method.
