ceaselessly
English
Etymology
Adverb
ceaselessly (comparative more ceaselessly, superlative most ceaselessly)
- Without ceasing.
- Synonyms: eternally, nonstop, unendingly; see also Thesaurus:continuously
- 1905, Richard Jefferies, Nature Near London:
- So the woods are silent, still, and deserted, save by a stray rabbit among the thistles, and the grasshoppers ceaselessly leaping in the grass.
- 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter IX, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 182:
- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Translations
without ceasing
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