Cessation
[se'seɪʃ(ə)n] or [sɛ'seʃən]
Definition
(n.) A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Stoppage, stop, intermission, remission, suspension, pause, rest, respite, discontinuance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stopping, halt, discontinuance, quiescence, suspension, intermission, lull,respite, stop, rest, abeyance, pause
ANT:Continuance, uninterruptedness, unintermission, incessancy
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Definition
n. a ceasing or stopping: a rest: a pause.
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Examples
- The onward flow of inventions may be interrupted, if not materially stayed, by the cessation of some of the causes and incentives which now give them life. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- What the coming summer would bring, we knew not; but the present months were our own, and our hopes of a cessation of pestilence were high. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The stranger, meanwhile, had been eating, drinking, and talking, without cessation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was a tearful boy, and broke into such deplorable lamentations, when a cessation of our connexion was hinted at, that we were obliged to keep him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- For there had been a sort of truce between these two great religions after the cessation of the Moslem advance and the decline of the Omayyads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It had appeared a sudden famine to her heart, this entire cessation of any news respecting the people amongst whom she had lived so long. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The tumult of cessation from lessons was already breaking forth, but it sank at her voice. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The news filled her with the glow produced by a sudden cessation of physical pain. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And such interferences lead straight to the cessation of work, that is, of the production of necessary things. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Equally, when he lay still and staring, he would repeat it for hours without cessation, but then, always in a tone of subdued warning and horror. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Cessation in his love-making had revivified her love. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Come on,' cried the cabman, who had been sparring without cessation the whole time. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There was scarcely any cessation now of the discharge of firearms; and there was struggling, rushing, trampling, and shouting between. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It produced a strange cessation of every ordinary routine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Throughout the war there had been a cessation not only of building, but of repairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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