surcease
Cessation; stop, stopping; end. Respite, intermission.
countable, uncountable
And first of all, it is more then time, there were an ende and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writting latelie entertained, whereby matter of religion is handled in the stile of the stage.
Where it comes from
From Anglo-Norman surseser, from Old French sursis, past participle of surseoir, from Latin supersedēre. Spelling later influenced by association with unrelated cease, which likely also influenced the meaning. Related to supersede.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry surcease (CC BY-SA 4.0).