英和和英

名詞

ceasement (plural ceasements)

1. (very rare) Synonym of cessation
   • 1918 May, Norma Patterson, “War Echoes III: Unto Each His Crown”, in The Bookman‎, volume LXVII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc., page 280:

     They had laid down their lives for love of country, and the reward was peace for the world. Not just the ceasement of war, but that perpetual peace born of universal brotherhood.

   • 2008, Mike Haszto, Pieces of the Heart‎, Bloomington, I.N.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 60:

     The bottom line: the ceasement of attention. / For my baby brother had been born, / ah yes, the family angel.