haltless

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English

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Etymology

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From halt +‎ -less.

Adjective

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haltless (comparative more haltless, superlative most haltless)

  1. Without halting or pausing; ceaseless; continual.
    • 1861, Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorations, page 227:
      [] we were discussing a famous stew of walrus-steaks, none the less relished for an unbroken ice-walk of forty-eight miles and twenty haltless hours []
    • 1992, David Farrell Krell, Daimon life: Heidegger and life-philosophy, page 180:
      Greatness is the prize awarded those who march in perpetual decision, not an either/or decision for this rather than that, but decision as the rhythmic law of a will to grandeur in the face of the haltless advance of corruption.

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