All 6 Uses of
cease
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the psychical impulse began?†
Chpt 3 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- 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 5cease = stop or discontinue
- There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love.†
Chpt 5ceased = 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 6
- For a moment he thought of praying that the horrible sympathy that existed between him and the picture might cease.†
Chpt 6cease = stop or discontinue
- But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings strange 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 13ceased = stopped or discontinued
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.