resistlessly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From resistless + -ly.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstləsli/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹəˈzɪstləsli/
- Hyphenation: re‧sist‧less‧ly
Adverb[edit]
resistlessly (not comparable)
- (archaic, chiefly literary) In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition.
- Synonyms: irresistibly, unresistingly
- 1879, John McElroy, chapter 76, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons:
- Sherman was sweeping resistlessly across the State.
- 1892, Walt Whitman, “A Song of the Rolling Earth”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 178:
- Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun; / Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
- 1913 August, Jack London, chapter I, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 8:
- And by alcoholic I mean a man whose chemistry craves alcohol and drives him resistlessly to it.
- 1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 19, in The Lamp of Fate:
- She yielded resistlessly, every fibre of her being quivering responsive to the overwhelming passion of love which had at last stormed and broken down all barriers.