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:
decease
verb
Etymology From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”).
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: