All 3 Uses of
cease
in
Romeo and Juliet
- Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract tonight;
It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say It lightens.†p. 76.2cease = stop or discontinue
- By-and-by I come:—To cease thy suit and leave me to my grief:
tomorrow will I send.†p. 78.6 *
- Meantime I writ to Romeo
That he should hither come as this dire night,
To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,
Being the time the potion's force should cease.†Scene 5.3
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.