All 10 Uses of
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- My brother Willie and I often received portions of the crackers, cakes, and preserves, she made to sell; and after we ceased to be children we were indebted to her for many more important services.†
Chpt 1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- She watched her husband with unceasing vigilance; but he was well practised in means to evade it.†
Chpt 6unceasing = 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.
- Her labors began with the dawn, and did not cease till long after nightfall.†
Chpt 9 *cease = stop or discontinue
- After a while it ceased.†
Chpt 16ceased = stopped or discontinued
- There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.†
Chpt 16cease = stop or discontinue
- Let us be thankful that some time or other we shall go 'where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.'†
Chpt 25
- I sought out the kind captain, thanked him for his attentions, and told him I should never cease to be grateful for the service he had rendered us.†
Chpt 31
- Sweet and bitter were mixed in the cup of my life, and I was thankful that it had ceased to be entirely bitter.†
Chpt 33ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Let every colored man and woman do this, and eventually we shall cease to be trampled under foot by our oppressors.†
Chpt 35cease = stop or discontinue
- She had gone "where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest."†
Chpt 41
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.