All 14 Uses of
cease
in
The Idiot
- She almost forgot her misery, and seemed to accept their love as a sort of symbol of pardon for her offence, though she never ceased to consider herself a dreadful sinner.†
Chpt 1.6ceased = stopped or discontinued
- When the prince ceased speaking all were gazing merrily at him—even Aglaya; but Lizabetha Prokofievna looked the jolliest of all.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- All conversation ceased instantly.†
Chpt 2.8
- In the manner of one with long hours before him, he began his history; but after a few incoherent words he jumped to the conclusion, which was that "having ceased to believe in God Almighty, he had lost every vestige of morality, and had gone so far as to commit a theft."†
Chpt 2.11
- Doubtless Lizabetha Prokofievna was considered "eccentric" in society, but she was none the less esteemed: the pity was that she was ceasing to believe in that esteem.†
Chpt 3.1ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- And in my opinion it is not at all likely that such murders will cease to occur for a very long time to come.†
Chpt 3.1cease = stop or discontinue
- But that's all the same to me, prince, and it's not my affair at all; for if you have ceased to love HER, SHE has not ceased to love YOU.†
Chpt 3.3ceased = stopped or discontinued
- But that's all the same to me, prince, and it's not my affair at all; for if you have ceased to love HER, SHE has not ceased to love YOU.†
Chpt 3.3
- I've been half an hour here with him, and he—" Hippolyte had been waiting for the prince all this time, and had never ceased looking at him and Evgenie Pavlovitch as they conversed in the corner.†
Chpt 3.4
- Take no notice of that; I know that I have almost ceased to exist.†
Chpt 3.10
- Of this returning of the money given to him by a madwoman who had received it from a madman, he had often repented since—though he never ceased to be proud of his action.†
Chpt 4.1
- "Look here, my dear sir," he began, addressing Ptitsin in a very loud tone of voice; "if you have really made up your mind to sacrifice an old man—your father too or at all events father of your wife—an old man who has served his emperor—to a wretched little atheist like this, all I can say is, sir, my foot shall cease to tread your floors.†
Chpt 4.2cease = stop or discontinue
- Four days ago I begged my mother to come down here and find lodgings, because I certainly do feel better here, though I am not fat, nor have I ceased to cough.†
Chpt 4.2ceased = stopped or discontinued
- When I asked him about you, he told me that he had long since ceased to love you, that the very recollection of you was a torture to him, but that he was sorry for you; and that when he thought of you his heart was pierced.†
Chpt 4.8
Definition:
to stop or discontinue