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Definition of Ceaseless
1. Adjective. Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing. "Unremitting demands of hunger"
Similar to: Continuous, Uninterrupted
Derivative terms: Ceaselessness, Incessancy, Incessantness, Perpetuity
Definition of Ceaseless
1. a. Without pause or end; incessant.
2. adv. Without intermission or end.
Definition of Ceaseless
1. Adjective. without an end ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ceaseless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceaseless
Literary usage of Ceaseless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"The attacks however had been so ceaseless that, in the course of the whole day,
they had advanced only five or six stadia, a good deal under a mile. ..."
2. Every Day in the Year: A Poetical Epitome of the World's History by James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford (1902)
"It is ambition's poisoned wine— The throb, perchance, of ceaseless pain— The
spark of genius half divine— The burning of a madman's brain? ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"The second great task relates to the ceaseless struggle with the lower forms of
animal and vegetable life which prey upon useful forms in immeasurable and ..."
4. English Reader by Lindley Murray (1840)
"Of nature's womb, that in quaternion ran Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix
And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great MAKER ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"... when it fell in solitary grandeur thousands of years before a human eye was
turned toward it in wonder, or human ear responded to its ceaseless monody. ..."
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