0 past simple and past participle of desist
1 to stop doing something, especially something that someone else does not want you to do:
With rampant unemployment and a surplus of labor, many workers desisted from joining unions out of fear of such reprisals.
Out of that group, almost 40% desisted in serious offending between ages 20 and 25.
Therefore, it is necessary to stipulate how large the window needs to be to consider a person as having desisted.
It also seems likely that some of the individuals desisted earlier than the desistance window of ages 20 -25 used in this analysis.
A class of individuals, labeled childhood limited, who demonstrated conduct problems in childhood but subsequently desisted, was also identified (24.3%).
They found that antisocial adolescents who desisted from criminality had significantly greater physiological arousal and orienting than antisocial adolescents who became adult criminals.
Far from having desisted from intervention, it has grown apace and has been increasing.
They were well and truly trounced, so they desisted for a while; but they seem to be returning to their old unfortunate ways.
