Both Uses of
cease
in
Turtles All the Way Down
- The other interesting thing about Davis's online presence was that everything ceased the day his father went missing.†
p. 59.4 *ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt.†
p. 89.7ceaseless = never-endingstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaseless means without and reverses the meaning of cease. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
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.