"cessant" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Latin cessans, present participle of cessare. See cease.",
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      "form": "more cessant",
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          "ref": "1648, Walter Montagu, “To the Most Sacred Majesty of Henrietta Maria, Daughter of France, and Queen of Great Britain”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] God hath been pleaſed, by a civil death, to contrive a juſtifiable intermiſsion of my ſecular Duties, and by ſuch a vvay, as renders even this ceſſant ſtate in ſome ſort active, and diſcharging my Obligations: […]",
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        "Dormant, inactive."
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        "(obsolete) Dormant, inactive."
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      "ipa": "/ˈsɛsənt/"
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  "word": "cessant"
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  "etymology_text": "Latin cessans, present participle of cessare. See cease.",
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