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desistance
noun as in cessation
Strong matches
noun as in close
Strongest match
noun as in closure
noun as in conclusion
noun as in discontinuance
noun as in end
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in ending
noun as in finish
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in stop
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in stopping point
Weak matches
- accomplishment
- achievement
- adjournment
- attainment
- bottom line
- cease
- cessation
- close
- closing
- closure
- completion
- conclusion
- consequence
- consummation
- culmination
- curtain
- denouement
- desuetude
- determination
- discontinuance
- end of the line
- ending
- execution
- expiration
- expiry
- finale
- finis
- finish
- fulfillment
- issue
- last word
- omega
- outcome
- payoff
- perfection
- period
- realization
- resolution
- result
- retirement
- sign-off
- stop
- target
- termination
- terminus
- upshot
- wind-up
- wrap-up
noun as in termination
noun as in terminus
Strong matches
- accomplishment
- achievement
- adjournment
- attainment
- cease
- cessation
- close
- closing
- closure
- completion
- conclusion
- consequence
- consummation
- culmination
- curtain
- denouement
- desuetude
- determination
- discontinuance
- ending
- execution
- expiration
- expiry
- finale
- finis
- finish
- fulfillment
- issue
- omega
- outcome
- payoff
- perfection
- period
- realization
- resolution
- result
- retirement
- stop
- target
- termination
- upshot
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Example Sentences
It was felt by them at the time to be an additional incentive to moderation, to sobriety, to desistance from extreme views.
All these charges were quieted by intrigue, bribery of the judges, or desistance of the accuser.
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
They have not yet become men, those terrible ones: may they preach desistance from life, and pass away themselves!
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On this page you'll find 496 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to desistance, such as: abeyance, arrest, break, break off, breather, and cease.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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