accession

Definition

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.

Example Sentences

• "a king's accession to a confederacy"
• "The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain."
• "1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xli, […] armed vessels being provided, their crews were soon recruited by accessions from the needy or adventurous, the discontented or the bold."