Both Uses
cease
in
Learning to Read and Write, by Douglas
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- My mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by any one else.†
ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The first step in her downward course was in her ceasing to instruct me.†
*ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
Definitions:
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(cease) to stop or discontinue
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(2)
(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.