2 uses
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Definition
to not do something
- "Lise, I beg you to desist," said Prince Andrew still more emphatically.Book One — 1805 (22% in)
desist = to not do something
- Natasha only desisted when she had been told that there would be pineapple ice.Book One — 1805 (58% in)
There are no more uses of "desist" in War and Peace.
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