To cease, to cease interfering, &c. A Let-up. A truce, a cessation.
1837. There was no let up in the matter; the people had so ordered it, and the gentleman ought to be satisfied.—Mr. Duncan of Ohio, House of Repr., Dec. 18: Cong. Globe, p. 47, App.
a. 1854. This pertinacious snarling, sniveling and blowing from day to day, without a let-up, is as contemptible as it is ineffectual; and the self-righteous being who persists in doing it, may be likened unto a little yaller dog, with two inches of tail and a feather-edged bark, letting off his yelps at a railroad train.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ iv. 110.
1857. Our spicy contemporary must “let up” on us for this error of omission.—San Francisco Call, Feb. 21.
1861. We ’re bound to see ’em through, and no let-up till they ’ve bought all they ’ve got on their memorandum.—Atlantic Monthly, vii. p. 207–8 (Feb.).
1867. One of our officers told him I had been a benedict some years, and there was as yet no let-up in the writing.—Letter from General Custer, April 8: Mrs. Custer, ‘Tenting on the Plains,’ p. 525 (1888).
1882. I promised you I ’d let up on him.—F. Bret Harte, ‘Flip,’ ch. iv. (N.E.D.)
1888. The coyotes never let up until they have taken aboard so much rabbit-meat that they can hardly stir.—San Francisco Examiner, March 22 (Farmer).
