All 3 Uses
cease
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say "It lightens."†p. 77.7cease = stop or discontinue - —
To cease thy strife and leave me to my grief.†p. 79.9 * - Meantime I writ to Romeo
That he should hither come as this dire night
To help to take her from her borrowed grave,
Being the time the potion's force should cease.†p. 239.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(cease) to stop or discontinue
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(2)
(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.