All 7 Uses of
cease
in
The Fountainhead
- It had ceased to disturb him long ago.†
Chpt 1.1 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The succession of his mistresses was so rapid that it ceased to be gossip.†
Chpt 3.1
- He came home in the evening and the city ceased to exist.†
Chpt 3.8
- Not in the total, undivided way, not with the kind of desire that becomes an ultimatum, 'yes' or 'no,' and one can't accept the 'no' without ceasing to exist.†
Chpt 3.9ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
- For once, Keating could not follow people; it was too clear, even to him, that public favor had ceased being a recognition of merit, that it had become almost a brand of shame.†
Chpt 4.7ceased = stopped or discontinued
- This did not disturb him; money had ceased to hold his attention as a major concern.†
Chpt 4.7
- The Banner has ceased to exist.†
Chpt 4.19
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.