All 11 Uses of
cease
in
The Scarlet Letter
- I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the Customs.†
p. 37.1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Henceforth it ceases to be a reality of my life; I am a citizen of somewhere else.†
p. 43.4ceases = stops or discontinues
- The moans of the little patient subsided; its convulsive tossings gradually ceased; and in a few moments, as is the custom of young children after relief from pain, it sank into a profound and dewy slumber.†
p. 68.3ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Throughout all, however, there was a trait of passion, a certain depth of hue, which she never lost; and if in any of her changes, she had grown fainter or paler, she would have ceased to be herself—it would have been no longer Pearl!†
p. 84.8
- The young minister, on ceasing to speak had withdrawn a few steps from the group, and stood with his face partially concealed in the heavy folds of the window-curtain; while the shadow of his figure, which the sunlight cast upon the floor, was tremulous with the vehemence of his appeal.†
p. 107.1ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- And he himself in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.†
p. 135.6 *ceases = stops or discontinues
- She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation.†
p. 151.6ceased = stopped or discontinued
- She had witnessed the intense misery beneath which the minister struggled, or, to speak more accurately, had ceased to struggle.†
p. 153.9
- All these giant trees and boulders of granite seemed intent on making a mystery of the course of this small brook; fearing, perhaps, that, with its never-ceasing loquacity, it should whisper tales out of the heart of the old forest whence it flowed, or mirror its revelations on the smooth surface of a pool.†
p. 173.2ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- There on the table, with the inky pen beside it, was an unfinished sermon, with a sentence broken in the midst, where his thoughts had ceased to gush out upon the page two days before.†
p. 208.2ceased = stopped or discontinued
- But, in the lapse of the toilsome, thoughtful, and self-devoted years that made up Hester's life, the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too.†
p. 244.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(cease) to stop or discontinue
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Note that the expression, cease fire means to stop doing battle such as firing funs at each other. Similarly, the noun, cease-fire, is a state of having stopped doing battle.