Origin
ceaseless + -ly
ceaselessly
adverb
The definition of ceaselessly is to do something without stopping.
An example of ceaselessly is how ocean waves continuously roll to shore.
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Sentence Examples
- The spindles hummed steadily and ceaselessly on all sides.
- During these years he was ceaselessly engaged in controversy with Nonconformists, Romanists, Deists and Socinians.
- Some who saw it report the act to the Pharisees; the Sanhedrim meets, Caiaphas declares that one man must die for the people, and henceforward they ceaselessly plan His death.
- The executioners were ceaselessly at work with stake, sword and gibbet.
- The Celtic risings now were made in defence of the royal claims of a descendant of Duncan, son of Malcolm Canmore; there were also MacHeth claimants to the old rights of Lulach; Galloway and the Celtic north were ceaselessly agitated.
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WORDS NEAR ceaselessly IN THE DICTIONARY
- ceaselessly
- ceased
- ceased-to-be
- ceasefires