adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an endless manner; everlastingly, for ever; perpetually, unceasingly.

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c. 1400.  Apol. Loll., 55. To be quicknid ȝendlesly.

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c. 1450.  Lonelich, Grail, xlix. 64. For they ben Goddis endelesly.

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1450–1530.  Myrr. Our Ladye, 4. Endelesly … presente in the syghte of hys Godly forknowynge.

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1509.  Fisher, Fun. Serm. C’tess Richmond (1708), 36. To whome be laude and honoure endlessly.

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1616.  Lane, Sqr. Tale, xi. 208. Curious galleries … endlesselie roundinge.

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1865.  Pusey, Truth Eng. Ch., 41. Lest they should endlessly lose Him.

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1878.  Huxley, Physiogr., Pref. p. v. The multiform and endlessly shifting phenomena of nature.

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