ceaselessly


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cease·less

 (sēs′lĭs)
adj.
Without stop or pause; constant. See Synonyms at continual.

cease′less·ly adv.
cease′less·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.ceaselessly - with unflagging resolveceaselessly - with unflagging resolve; "dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste"
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Translations
بِصورَةٍ لا تَتَوَقَّف
nekonečněnepřetržitě
endeløst
án afláts
durmadandurmaksızın

ceaselessly

[ˈsiːslɪslɪ] ADVincesantemente, sin cesar
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ceaselessly

[ˈsiːsləsli] adv
(= constantly) [work, toil, campaign] → sans cesse
(= endlessly) [complain] → continuellement
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

ceaselessly

adv (= endlessly)unaufhörlich; (= relentlessly)unablässig
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ceaselessly

[ˈsiːslɪslɪ] advcontinuamente, senza sosta
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

cease

(siːs) verb
to stop or (bring to an) end. They were ordered to cease firing; That department has ceased to exist; This foolishness must cease!; Cease this noise!
ˈceaseless adjective
continuous; never ceasing. ceaseless noise.
ˈceaselessly adverb
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References in classic literature ?
Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company's store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed.
The spindles hummed steadily and ceaselessly on all sides.
He continued to pay his court--if the delicate and tender attention with which he ceaselessly surrounded this woman of five-and-thirty could be called courtship--in face of her declared intention never to marry.
There is the rustle of the myriad animals on the beach, all the little shelled things that crawl about ceaselessly, and there is the noisy scurrying of the land-crabs.
But as the fly in his ointment of jovial irresponsibility was his wife, Lenerengo--the prize shrew of Somo, who was as lean about the middle and all the rest of her as her husband was rotund; who was as remarkably sharp-spoken as he was soft-spoken; who was as ceaselessly energetic as he was unceasingly idle; and who had been born with a taste for the world as sour in her mouth as it was sweet in his.
Changing only with the change of the sun and the clouds, the waving green mass had stood there for century after century, and the water had run between its banks ceaselessly, sometimes washing away earth and sometimes the branches of trees, while in other parts of the world one town had risen upon the ruins of another town, and the men in the towns had become more and more articulate and unlike each other.
But Ned knew his chum would work ceaselessly to help get the idol of gold.
A gay little child was I--my one idea being ceaselessly to run about the fields and the woods and the garden.
A stream of water trickled ceaselessly over the hideous face.
He considered with some irony the philosophy which he had developed for himself, for it had not been of much use to him in the conjuncture he had passed through; and he wondered whether thought really helped a man in any of the critical affairs of life: it seemed to him rather that he was swayed by some power alien to and yet within himself, which urged him like that great wind of Hell which drove Paolo and Francesca ceaselessly on.
Keep up!' shouted another, ceaselessly beating his horse with the switch.
Ceaselessly active, head and hand, an intelligent machine, all that constituted him a man was devoted to furnishing that intelligence.