All 3 Uses of
cease
in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.†
Scene 1.1 *cease = stop or discontinue
- I would you were set, so your affection would cease.†
Scene 2.1
- Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, And study help for that which thou lament'st.†
Scene 3.1
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.