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ces·sa·tion
/
sɛˈseɪ
ʃən
/
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[
se-
sey
-sh
uh
n
]
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noun
a temporary or complete stopping; discontinuance:
a cessation of hostilities.
Origin:
1350–1400;
Middle English
cessacio
(
u
)
n
<
Latin
cessātiōn-
(stem of
cessātiō
) delay, inactivity, stoppage, equivalent to
cessāt
(
us
) past participle of
cessāre
to delay, stop (
cess
(
us
) yielded, ceded (
ced-
cede
+
-tus
past participle suffix) +
-ātus
-ate
1
) +
-iōn-
-ion
Synonyms
stop, halt, end, suspension, stay, recess.
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World English Dictionary
cessation
(sɛˈseɪʃən)
—
n
a ceasing or stopping; discontinuance; pause:
temporary cessation of hostilities
[C14: from Latin
cessātiō
a delaying, inactivity, from
cessāre
to be idle, desist from, from
cēdere
to yield,
cede
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
cessation
1447, from O.Fr. cessation, from L. cessationem (nom. cessatio) "a delaying, ceasing," from cessare "delay" (see
cease
).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
But the nation soon learned that the
cessation
of active war did not
necessarily mean the inauguration of peace.
Well, if you want to know the actual reason for
cessation
of posting
privileges, nobody can tell you that but our esteemed hosts.
There was a
cessation
of nearly every sort of productive activity except such
as contributed to military operations.
Perhaps
cessation
of building altogether is the unstated solution--a novel
idea, but one with little practicality.
What happened next seems to live on in his fiction's patterns of abrupt
cessation
.
The formally worded announcement did not specifically mention the earthquake as the reason for the
cessation
of development.
Cessation
of smoking, treatment of sewage, and obesity awareness.
They threw fire and burning brands about the streets, and all night long they ran howling and singing without
cessation
.
Happiness and smoking
cessation
can spread the same way.
There may also be a slow process of degeneration in the cortex, with the
cessation
of neural input from the eye.
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