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UNCEASINGLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unceasingly mean?
• UNCEASINGLY (adverb)
The adverb UNCEASINGLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNCEASINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With unflagging resolve
Synonyms:
ceaselessly; continuously; endlessly; incessantly; unceasingly; unendingly
Context example:
dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste
Pertainym:
unceasing (uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing)
Context examples
But when away from his god, the pain and the unrest returned; the void in him sprang up and pressed against him with its emptiness, and the hunger gnawed and gnawed unceasingly.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was a bold surmise, for he was Isabella's brother; and she had been assured by James that his manners would recommend him to all her sex; but in spite of this, the extreme weariness of his company, which crept over her before they had been out an hour, and which continued unceasingly to increase till they stopped in Pulteney Street again, induced her, in some small degree, to resist such high authority, and to distrust his powers of giving universal pleasure.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The unknown bore him on he knew not to what frightful hurt, and he yelped and ki-yi'd unceasingly.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
If Beauty Smith had in him a devil, White Fang had another; and the two of them raged against each other unceasingly.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It hummed and buzzed unceasingly.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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