Both Uses
desist
in
Wuthering Heights
(Edited)
- She held her hand interposed between the furnace-heat and her eyes, and seemed absorbed in her occupation; desisting from it only to chide the servant for covering her with sparks, or to push away a dog, now and then, that snoozled its nose overforwardly into her face.
p. 21.1 *desisting = stopping
- He exerted preterhuman self-denial in abstaining from finishing him completely; but getting out of breath, he finally desisted, and dragged the apparently inanimate body on to the settle.
p. 129.6desisted = stopped
Definitions:
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(1)
(desist) to not do something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)