All 11 Uses of
cease
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the physical impulse began?†
Chpt 4 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- But then the only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.†
Chpt 6
- Although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract to-night:
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say, "It lightens."†Chpt 7cease = stop or discontinue
- There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.†
Chpt 7ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The people who have adored me—there have not been very many, but there have been some—have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.†
Chpt 8
- For a moment he thought of praying that the horrible sympathy that existed between him and the picture might cease.†
Chpt 8cease = stop or discontinue
- It was some consolation that Harry was to be there, and when the door opened and he heard his slow musical voice lending charm to some insincere apology, he ceased to feel bored.†
Chpt 15ceased = stopped or discontinued
- At the same time the firing ceased along the line.†
Chpt 18
- When you and he ceased to be great friends, he ceased to be a great artist.†
Chpt 19
- When you and he ceased to be great friends, he ceased to be a great artist.†
Chpt 19
- But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play—I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.†
Chpt 19
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.