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cession
/ ˈsɛʃən /
noun
- the act of ceding, esp of ceding rights, property, or territory
- something that is ceded, esp land or territory
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cession1
C14: from Latin cessiō, from cēdere to yield
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Example Sentences
A general rising was planned in Lombardy, but failed, as the Austrians received news of the proposed cession of Milan.
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On the cession of Louisiana, he followed the standard of "the king, his master, who never suffers an old servant to be neglected."
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Napoleon affected uncertainty, and demanded an enormous cession of territory as the price of a truce.
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The principal dissensions, however, grew out of the question of the cession of the territory east of the Mississippi.
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To the cession of its rather imposing fort was immediately ascribed the massacre of our countrymen at Patna, as already mentioned.
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