All 5 Uses of
cease
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- Your bright eyes bear down on me without cease, on behalf of the quick and the dead.†
Chpt 1 *cease = stop or discontinue
- Without cease, they'll bend to his light.†
Chpt 3
- I listened to the world around me, but all other sound had ceased entirely.†
Chpt 4ceased = stopped or discontinued
- After the first several miles I ceased to feel the weight on my head at all.†
Chpt 5
- Then after a week or two the women usually begin to talk, very softly but without cease, until they've finished the accounting of places and people they've lost.†
Chpt 6cease = 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.