Definition of Resistlessly

1. Adverb. (archaic chiefly literary) In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition. ¹

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Definition of Resistlessly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Resistlessly

resistibility
resistible
resistin
resisting
resisting arrest
resistingly
resistins
resistive
resistive movement
resistively
resistiveness
resistivenesses
resistivities
resistivity
resistless
resistlessly (current term)
resistlessness
resistor
resistors
resists
resit
resite
resited
resites
resiting
resits
resitting
resittings
resituate
resituated

Literary usage of Resistlessly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration (1898)
"... tirelessly, resistlessly, until the nation makes this her cause, in the day, so rapidly approaching, of her boundless opportunity. ..."

2. A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents by Francis Wharton (1887)
"... has attained the number ours has—yearly increasing at a compound rate—and such the impetus with which it is forcing its way, resistlessly, westward. ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1899)
"Into the grass, and through it, with the flintlocks scorching their faces and the iron shower hurtling broadcast, they drove resistlessly through and over ..."

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