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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Abscission

· Ab·scis·sion · IPA /æbˈsɪ.ʃn̩/
01 n. The act or process of cutting off.
  1. 1.
    The act or process of cutting off.
  2. 2.
    The state of being cut off.
  3. 3.
    A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more.”(Rhet.)