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Definition of Cessations
1. cessation [n] - See also: cessation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cessations
Literary usage of Cessations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical by Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld (1820)
"... modesty in the cessations;—that he attracted the notice of every person of
observation; and also that he received personal commendation from the regent. ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"27, viz. that the cessations ¡md peaces »'ere of advantage only to the Irish,
and highly dishonourable to i in- crown of England, and destructive to the ..."
3. Trade Unionism and Labor Problems by John Rogers Commons (1921)
"either there were no cessations at all, or the number was so slight that it was
not included in the tabulations of the United States Geological Survey. ..."
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