All 8 Uses of
cease
in
Northanger Abbey
- Thorpe only lashed his horse into a brisker trot; the Tilneys, who had soon ceased to look after her, were in a moment out of sight round the corner of Laura Place, and in another moment she was herself whisked into the marketplace.†
Chpt 11 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The business, however, though not perfectly elucidated by this speech, soon ceased to be a puzzle.†
Chpt 13
- If we proceed to particulars, and engage in the never-ceasing inquiry of 'Have you read this?' and 'Have you read that?'†
Chpt 14ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- All that was venerable ceased here.†
Chpt 23ceased = stopped or discontinued
- It was done; and Catherine found herself alone in the gallery before the clocks had ceased to strike.†
Chpt 24
- She listened—the sound had ceased; and resolving not to lose a moment, she passed through and closed the door.†
Chpt 24
- How Henry would think, and feel, and look, when he returned on the morrow to Northanger and heard of her being gone, was a question of force and interest to rise over every other, to be never ceasing, alternately irritating and soothing; it sometimes suggested the dread of his calm acquiescence, and at others was answered by the sweetest confidence in his regret and resentment.†
Chpt 29ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- In this unceasing recurrence of doubts and inquiries, on any one article of which her mind was incapable of more than momentary repose, the hours passed away, and her journey advanced much faster than she looked for.†
Chpt 29unceasing = not stopping or discontinuingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unceasing means not and reverses the meaning of ceasing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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.