From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Desistance \De*sist"ance\, noun [Cf. F. desistance.] The act or state of desisting; cessation. [R.] --Boyle.
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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