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Vinony

ceaseless

adjective

  1. unceasing/uninterrupted
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Pronunciation: /ˈsiːsləs/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English cease Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English ceaseless From cease + -less.

  1. Without an end.
  2. Without stop or pause, incessant.

    “Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.”