Both Uses of
desist
in
Middlemarch
- But I shall not desist from voting with him on that account.†
Chpt 2 *
- That was the process going on in poor Rosamond, while she arranged all objects around her with the same nicety as ever, only with more slowness—or sat down to the piano, meaning to play, and then desisting, yet lingering on the music stool with her white fingers suspended on the wooden front, and looking before her in dreamy ennui.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(desist) to not do something