ceaselessly

ceaseless +‎ -ly

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ceaselessly (comparative more ceaselessly, superlative most ceaselessly)

1. 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.