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- noun Plural form of
ceasing .
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Examples
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All phenomena are caused to come into and go out of existence by other phenomena, and all the becomings and ceasings go on in one vast nexus of beingness, without beginning or end.
The Guardian World News Barbara O'Brien 2010
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All phenomena are caused to come into and go out of existence by other phenomena, and all the becomings and ceasings go on in one vast nexus of beingness, without beginning or end.
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There are some cessations from sin, that are not real forsakings of it, and ceasings from it.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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There may be some pure and simple ceasings from sin, mere abstinence, or rather mere absence of sin for a season, that is not ceasing from doing evil.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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His track marks one of th earliest dateable events in that cycle of beginnings and ceasings which we call a year. "
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