All 6 Uses of
cease
in
The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
- And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment.†
cease = stop or discontinue
- And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed.†
ceases = stops or discontinues
- And he answered, saying: You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.†
cease = stop or discontinue
- And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
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- And when they reached my depth the streams and the rivers ceased not yet to sing.†
ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Could you but see the tides of that breath you would cease to see all else, And if you could hear the whispering of the dream you would hear no other sound.†
cease = stop or discontinue
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.