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Cessation

Cessation Meaning & Definition
Cessation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cessation?

[n] a stopping; "a cessation of the thunder"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cessation: surcease

Related Terms | Find terms related to Cessation: abandonment | abeyance | abjuration | abjurement | absentation | apodosis | breach | break | caesura | casting away | catastrophe | cease | ceasing | close | closing | coda | cold storage | conclusion | consummation | crack of doom | culmination | curtain | curtains | dead set | dead stand | dead stop | deadlock | death | decease | decline | denouement | desistance | destination | destiny | desuetude | discontinuance | disuse | doom | dying down | ebb | ebbing | effect | end | end point | ending | envoi | epilogue | eschatology | evacuation | expiration | fate | final solution | final twitch | final words | finale | finality | finis | finish | fissure | forbearance | forsaking | full stop | gap | goal | halt | hiatus | homestretch | interim | intermission | interruption | interval | izzard | jettison | jettisoning | lacuna | lapse | last | last breath | last gasp | last lap | last round | last stage | last things | last trumpet | last words | latter end | leaving | letup | lock | lull | nonexercise | omega | pause | payoff | period | peroration | pulling out | quietus | relinquishment | renouncement | renunciation | resignation | resolution | resting place | stand | standstill | stillstand | stop | stoppage | stopping place | subsidence | suspension | swan song | term | terminal | termination | terminus | throwing overboard | waiver | wane | waning | windup | withdrawal | Z

See Also | halt | legal separation | separation | stop

Cessation In Webster's Dictionary

\Ces*sa"tion\ (s[e^]s*s[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [F. cessation, L. cessatio, fr. cessare. See {Cease}.] A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. --Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. --Sir J. Hayward. {Cessation of arms} (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes. Syn: Stop; rest; stay; pause; discontinuance; intermission; interval; respite; interruption; recess; remission.

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