without cease
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4.2
- idiom
- Literature
:
sin cesar
- The children played in the park, laughing and running around without cease.
Examples
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The householder may not watch and wake without cease; otherwise, the parable will not be fulfilled.
Academic text (2018) -
As long as you lack something, you yearn for it without cease.
Fiction book (1994) -
So well written with actual observations, not the usual liberal rhetoric and drivel that we get every day without cease!
Blog text (34) -
But you have attacked me without cease for over a year, solely without offering anything other than lies and ad hominems, just as you do now.
Blog text (2) -
It must, because that is the way things are and have always been, the moon and sun circling forever above without cease, just as the waves must rise and fall, and the rains must follow the dry time.
Fiction book (1995) -
What pleasure they will take in being fast and efficient—to run without cease!—humming along by their picosecond clocks, their algorithms compact, elegant, error-free.
Academic text (2004) -
This has been a time of war and rumors of war without cease, global ideological conflict, and, with the onset of the atomic age, the possibility, at times even the prospect, that the human race might destroy itself in one climactic Armageddon-like convulsion.
Academic text (1997) -
She worked on her project without cease, determined to finish before the deadline.
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During the storm, the rain fell without cease, making it hard to see the road.
Synonyms
129
2.1
In a regular way without stopping
95
2.3
Happens without stopping or pausing
73
2.3
Without stopping for a very long time
29
4.8
Happening all the time without stopping
22
6.3
In a way that continues without stopping for a long time
2
6.6
In a way that does not stop
1
8.0
Continuing without stopping or getting weaker
1
5.8
Without stopping for a long time
1
6.3
Without any pause or stop
To go on without stopping or pausing
Antonyms
How Continuous
- Literature
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4.2
740
1.0
386
1.0
438
2.0
539
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'without' indicates absence and 'cease' means to stop, so together they straightforwardly yield 'without stopping' or 'continuously.' This sense follows normal negation-of-action logic found in many languages (though the phrase is somewhat formal), so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Without cease paints a simple picture: without means 'no' and cease means 'to stop', like rain that keeps falling with no break. So it means 'continuously' or 'without stopping'.