ceaselessly

adv

ceaselessly

adv

Etymology From ceaseless + -ly.

1

Without ceasing.

  • So the woods are silent, still, and deserted, save by a stray rabbit among the thistles, and the grasshoppers ceaselessly leaping in the grass.1905, Richard Jefferies, Nature Near London:
  • So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 9, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, page 182:

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