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to stop or discontinue
- From then on, Chielo never ceased in her chanting.p. 107.4
- Okonkwo and the boys worked in complete silence, which was only broken when a new palm frond was lifted on to the wall or when a busy hen moved dry leaves about in her ceaseless search for food.p. 55.6
There are no more uses of "cease" in Things Fall Apart.
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