Definition of "desistance" []

• The act or state of desisting; cessation. (noun)

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• "Enforce bail conditions, including desistance from the use of expensive illicit drugs."
• "But the follow-up studies I've done, and others too, show that a substantial majority of kids seen for GID in childhood show desistance — that is, when they're older they don't want to be the other sex."
• "Brother Polycarp rapped his wand on the easel and the fluting straggled to indefinite desistance."