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English
Etymology
ceaseless + -ly
Pronunciation
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 9, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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