a. [f. CEASE sb. + -LESS.] Without ceasing, unceasing, uninterrupted.
1586. Marlowe, 1st Pt. Tamburl., V. j. Make our Souls resolve in ceaseless tears.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 967. Thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.
1764. Goldsm., Trav., 9. With ceaseless pain.
1843. Arnold, Hist. Rome, III. 145. We … listen to their deep and ceaseless roar.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, x. 314. Ceaseless beating of the spray has worn the rocks into jagged honeycombs.
Hence Ceaselessly adv., without ceasing, incessantly; Ceaselessness, ceaseless quality.
1593. Drayton, Eclog., X. 16. And me with hate, yet ceaslesly pursue.
1867. J. Legge, Life Confucius, 309. To entire sincerity there belongs ceaselessness.
1869. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), III. xii. 125. The hill-fortress became a mere nest of robbers, by whom every sort of damage was ceaselessly inflicted on the country around.
