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UNCEASING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
Example:
unremitting demands of hunger
Synonyms:
ceaseless; constant; incessant; never-ending; perpetual; unceasing; unremitting
Classified under:
Similar:
continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Continuing forever or indefinitely
Example:
the unending bliss of heaven
Synonyms:
aeonian; ageless; eonian; eternal; everlasting; perpetual; unceasing; unending
Classified under:
Similar:
lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)
Context examples:
And to add confusion to confusion, there was the servant, an unceasing menace, that appeared noiselessly at his shoulder, a dire Sphinx that propounded puzzles and conundrums demanding instantaneous solution.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Elinor did not offer to detain him; and they parted, with a very earnest assurance on HER side of her unceasing good wishes for his happiness in every change of situation that might befall him; on HIS, with rather an attempt to return the same good will, than the power of expressing it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The poem swung in majestic rhythm to the cool tumult of interstellar conflict, to the onset of starry hosts, to the impact of cold suns and the flaming up of nebulae in the darkened void; and through it all, unceasing and faint, like a silver shuttle, ran the frail, piping voice of man, a querulous chirp amid the screaming of planets and the crash of systems.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The kindness, the unceasing kindness of Mrs. Jennings, I had repaid with ungrateful contempt. To the Middletons, to the Palmers, the Steeles, to every common acquaintance even, I had been insolent and unjust; with a heart hardened against their merits, and a temper irritated by their very attention.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Lucy's marriage, the unceasing and reasonable wonder among them all, formed of course one of the earliest discussions of the lovers;—and Elinor's particular knowledge of each party made it appear to her in every view, as one of the most extraordinary and unaccountable circumstances she had ever heard.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
With her children they were in continual raptures, extolling their beauty, courting their notice, and humouring their whims; and such of their time as could be spared from the importunate demands which this politeness made on it, was spent in admiration of whatever her ladyship was doing, if she happened to be doing any thing, or in taking patterns of some elegant new dress, in which her appearance the day before had thrown them into unceasing delight.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
