Definition of "ceasing" []

• A cessation (noun)
• Present participle of cease. (verb)

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• "'It means, sir, that, in ceasing to write, one ceases to be paid for writing, and Mr. Carlyle has published nothing for several years.'"
• "Simultaneously with a ceasing is the attainment, on a mental continuum, of a static parting and nonanalytical stopping."
• "And the question we're asking is, was the United States right to balk at immediate cease-fire in the Middle East, the U.S. being one of the few countries to stand against the idea of ceasing hostilities?"