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stopless, a.|ˈstɒplɪs|
[f. stop n.2 + -less.]
Without a stop or stops. a. Unceasing. b. Of a pipe: Having no stops. c. Without punctuation.
1660Davenant Poem K. Chas. II's Return 14 Making a civill and staid Senate rude, And stoplesse as a running multitude. 1899Academy 11 Nov. 543/2 A slouching figure playing imaginary tunes on a stopless pipe. 1903W. Jerrold in Great Thoughts 10 Jan. 248/1 The voice gives out before the end of the first stopless stanza of over 60 lines.
Hence ˈstoplessness.
1859Sat. Rev. 19 Feb. 220/1 Sometimes she works herself up into a state of utter stoplessness—at others, she gives half a page in which the pause of a comma is all the time allowed for refreshment anywhere. |