Desistance

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Desistance \De*sist"ance\, n. [Cf. F. desistance.]
     The act or state of desisting; cessation. [R.] --Boyle.
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           If fatigue of body or brain were in every case followed
           by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom


           out of working order.                    --H. Spencer.
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