All 3 Uses
desist
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- The monster Maffei desisted and flung his victim from him with an oath.†
Chpt 4 *desisted = stopped
- Bloom, mumbling, his eyes downcast, begins to bestow his parcels in his filled pockets but desists, muttering.†
Chpt 15desists = stops
- Why did he desist from speculation?†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(desist) to not do something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)