Desist Synonyms and Antonyms

Desist Sentence Examples

• The Danes were to desist from their ravages, but were allowed to stay in England.

• Under pressure from the palatine of Batthyany an imperial edict was issued, on the 7th day of May, ordering the ban to desist from his separatist plans and take his orders from Pest.

• As for Joe, my opinion is that he should also desist from personal attacks.

• I asked him if he was going to desist, and he said yes; but we separated on somewhat frigid terms.

• After a short residence at Lambeth he was appointed, through the influence of Cromwell, then chancellor of the university, to lecture on theology at Cambridge; but when he had delivered a few expositions of the Hebrew psalms, he was compelled by the opposition of the papal party to desist.