ceaselessadj.
/ˈsiːslɪs/ Without ceasing, unceasing, uninterrupted.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring
longeOE
longsomeeOE
long of lifeOE
lastinga1225
cleaving1340
continualc1340
dwellingc1380
long-livinga1382
everlastingc1384
long-duringa1387
long-lasting?a1400
long-liveda1400
broadc1400
permanable?c1422
perseverant?a1425
permanentc1425
perdurable?a1439
continuedc1440
abiding1448
unremoved1455
eternalc1460
long-continued1464
continuing1526
long-enduring1527
enduring1532
immortal1538
diuturn?1541
veterated1547
resiant?1567
stayinga1568
well-wearinga1568
substantive1575
pertinacious1578
extant1581
ceaseless1590
marble1596
of length1597
longeval1598
diuturnal1599
nine-lived1600
chronic1601
unexhausted1602
chronical1604
endurable1607
continuant1610
indeflourishing1610
aged1611
indurant1611
continuatea1616
perennious1628
seculara1631
undiscontinueda1631
continuated1632
untransitory1632
long-spun1633
momently1641
stative1643
outliving1645
constant1653
long-descended1660
voluminousa1661
perduring1664
perdurant1671
livelong1673
perennial1676
longeve1678
consequential1681
unquenched1703
lifelong1746
momentary1755
inveterate1780
stabile1797
persistent1826
unpassing1831
all-time1846
year-long1846
teak-built1847
lengthful1855
long-term1867
long haul1873
sticky1879
week-to-week1879
perenduring1883
long-range1885
longish1889
long-time1902
long run1904
long-life1915
the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continuous or without stop or pause (of action)
ithanda1300
continualc1340
unstintingc1380
perpetuala1382
unfailinga1382
unceasing1382
everlastinga1398
restless?a1439
continuedc1440
running1492
incessant1532
uncessant1548
incessable1552
universal1561
never-ceasing1567
still1570
unpausing1585
ceaseless1590
uncessable1596
indesinent1601
uninterrupted1602
unceasable1604
Sabbathless1605
unceased1605
unintermissive1610
unstaying1616
constant1653
jugial1654
uninterrupted1657
stopless1660
uncheque1671
chronical1672
unarrested1733
well-sustained1743
uninterrupt1776
unsuspended1792
sustained1796
pauseless1820
unhalting1832
persistent1842
unresting1856
unbreaking1870
non-stop1915
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > lasting, continuous
endlessc888
perpetuala1382
unceasing1382
restless?c1425
biding1430
continual1462
remanent?a1475
incessant1532
uncessant1548
incessable1552
never-ceasing1567
still1570
ceaseless1590
indesinent1601
unceasable1604
unintermissive1610
constant1653
jugial1654
tarrying1654
insuccessive1678
perpetuative1785
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E5v Make our soules resolue in ceasles teares.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. G4 Thou ceaselesse lackie to Eternitie. View more context for this quotation
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 2 With ceaseless pain.
1843 T. Arnold & J. C. Hare Hist. Rome III. 145 We..listen to their deep and ceaseless roar.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 314 Ceaseless beating of the spray.
Derivatives
ˈceaselessly adv. without ceasing, incessantly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > [adverb] > in a continuous manner or without stopping
fastlyOE
anonOE
everOE
everylikec1225
continuallyc1305
atreet1340
unceasinglyc1340
perpetuallyc1385
incessably1398
desselya1400
ithandlya1400
dreichlyc1400
restlessc1400
contunely1447
all alongc1450
dessantlyc1460
incessantly1481
still opece1488
uncessantlya1500
continuinglya1513
in ane1513
away1526
incessant1558
restlessly1567
square1570
stintless1598
ceaselessly?1606
residently1609
unrestingly1621
indesinently1651
jugially1654
unintermissively1656
constantly1682
hand to fist1706
forever1753
unintermittingly1784
round the clock1816
continuously1826
unpausingly1831
sustainedly1842
pauselessly1845
remorselessly1845
around the clock1872
play-by-play1889
ball-by-ball1906
non-stop1920
solidly1937
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adverb] > without cessation
fastlyOE
without ceasec1330
without ceasinga1340
unceasinglyc1340
incessably1398
dreichlyc1400
restlessc1400
perpetuallyc1475
incessantly1481
uncessantlya1500
incessant1558
ceaselessly?1606
indesinently1651
jugially1654
unintermissively1656
upon or on a stretch1689
at one or a stretch1774
unabatingly1793
at the stretch1867
never-ceasingly1869
?1606 M. Drayton Eglog x, in Poemes sig. G9 And me with hate yet ceaslesly pursue.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xii. 125 Every sort of damage was ceaselessly inflicted on the country around.
ˈceaselessness n. ceaseless quality.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > [noun] > quality of being incessant
incessancy?1615
uncessantness1627
incessantness1727
unceasingness1727
unintermittingness1866
ceaselessness1877
1877 J. Legge Life Confucius 309 To entire sincerity there belongs ceaselessness.
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