uninterruptedly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From uninterrupted + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]uninterruptedly (not comparable)
- Without interruption.
- 1890, Lucy Madox Rossetti, chapter 1, in Mrs. Shelley, pages 19–20:
- They adopted the singular, though in their case probably advantageous, decision to continue each to have a separate place of abode, in order that each might work uninterruptedly, […]
- 1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 804:
- Speed downhill was not allowed to exceed 77½ m.p.h., then, after a 63 m.p.h. slowing through Creil, the more gradual rise to Gannes was climbed at between 75 and 79 m.p.h. uninterruptedly.
- 1960 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 177:
- Save for the three brief ¼-mile descents, before Bakewell, Monsal Dale and Miller's Dale, the line is climbing uninterruptedly at round about 1 in 100 for 9 miles from Rowsley almost to Miller's Dale, [...].
Synonyms
[edit]- ceaselessly, incessantly, nonstop; see also Thesaurus:continuously
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]without interruption
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