resistlessly
advUK /ɹɪˈzɪstləsli/ · US /ɹəˈzɪstləsli/
Etymology From resistless + -ly.
- Sherman was sweeping resistlessly across the State.1879, John McElroy, chapter 76, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons:
- Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun; / Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.1892, Walt Whitman, “A Song of the Rolling Earth”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 178:
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- And by alcoholic I mean a man whose chemistry craves alcohol and drives him resistlessly to it.1913 August, Jack London, chapter I, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 8:
- She yielded resistlessly, every fibre of her being quivering responsive to the overwhelming passion of love which had at last stormed and broken down all barriers.1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 19, in The Lamp of Fate: