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Definition: Unceasingly |
UnceasinglyAdverb1. With unflagging resolve; "dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unceasingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: UnceasinglySynonyms: ceaselessly (adv), continuously (adv), endlessly (adv), incessantly (adv), unendingly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unceasingly |
| English words defined with "unceasingly": Forever and ever. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unceasingly": STILTS. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | In our whole system, national and State, we have shunned all the defects which unceasingly preyed on the vitals and destroyed the ancient Republics. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unceasingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unceasingly" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unceasingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vazhdimisht (again and again, ceaselessly, constantly, continually, continuously, incessantly, non-stop, repeatedly, uninterruptedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不断地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unaufhörlich (all the time, ceaseless, ceaselessly, constant, continual, continuously, everlasting, incessant, incessantly, incontinent, never ending, perpetual, unceasing, unending, unremitting, unremittingly), unaufhörliche (ceaseless, ceaselessly, unremittingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | állandóan erősödő (steadily increasing, unceasingly growing, unceasingly intensifying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 부단하게 (ceaselessly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | easinglyuncay непрерывно (continuously, permanently, right along, uninterruptedly). (various references) incesantemente (away, incessantly, on and on). (various references) durmaksızın (ceaselessly, without cease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-n-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: sanguinely. | |
-2 letters: cleansing, unceasing, unsealing, yeanlings. | |
-3 letters: cleaning, cyanines, eanlings, encasing, enlacing, ensigncy, glycines, guanines, guylines, insanely, langsyne, leanings, lunacies, nucleins, nuisance, saliency, sanguine, syncline, uncasing, uneasily, ungainly, ungenial, unlacing, unlaying, unsaying, yealings, yeanling. | |
-4 letters: aneling, angelic, angelus, anglice, anguine, cangues, canines, cannels, cannily, cauline, causing, ceasing, censing, censual, cingula, claying, clueing, cyanine, cyanins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-n-s-u-y" | |
+3 letters: eugeosynclinal. | |
+5 letters: consanguineously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 63 65 61 73 69 6E 67 6C 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.-. . .- ... .. -. --. .-.. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n c e a s i n g l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0063 0065 0061 0073 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580697167857580737891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albaner, albán, 알"니아, албанский, albanés, Arnavut |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | kinez, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kínai, 중국, китайский, китаец, chino, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , német, 독일, немецкий, alemán, alman |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, magyar, 헝가리, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, macarca, macar |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | korean, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, кореец, корейский, coreano, kore'li |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, orosz, 러시아, русский, ruso, Rusça |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, spanisch, spanyol, 스페인, испанский, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, türkisch, török, турецкий, turco, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, angol, 영국, английский, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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