Both Uses of
cease
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- Politics ceased to exist for him that moment; and as for the small boy in knickers—the casualty of Christmas past—the high, polished, formal room, the crossed flags behind the desk, the littered filing cabinets, the books—all came down to a homely familiarity, mere frame around the Congressman's face.†
Chpt 5 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- There are parallel lines, at the beginning and end—the poet's description and comment in the introit that the walls will be the hero's only immortality (but his name will cease to be connected with them)—and Gilgamesh's own description, an echo.†
Chpt 15cease = 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.