Both Uses
cease
in
The Rocking-Horse Winner
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- His eyes blazed at her for one strange and senseless second, as he ceased urging his wooden horse.†
*ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The boy, with his rather long, curly hair, was tossing ceaselessly on the pillow.†
ceaselessly = in a manner that does not stopstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaselessly means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
Definitions:
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(1)
(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.