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Etymology

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From cease +‎ -less.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsiːsləs/
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ceaseless (not comparable)

  1. Without an end.
  2. Without stop or pause, incessant.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
      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.

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