All 3 Uses of
desist
in
Light in August
- And the Sunday after that when he arrived the door was locked, and the loafers watched him try the door and then desist and stand there with his face still not bowed, with the street lined with men who never went to church anyway, and little boys who did not know exactly what it was but that it was something, stopping and looking with still round eyes at the man standing quite motionless before the locked door.†
Chpt 3
- He desisted; he seemed to be leaning a little toward the horse.†
Chpt 9 *desisted = stopped
- But he did not desist; though his hands were hard and urgent it was with rage alone.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
to not do something