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Definition of Resistlessly
1. Adverb. (archaic chiefly literary) In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Resistlessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resistlessly
Literary usage of Resistlessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration (1898)
"... tirelessly, resistlessly, until the nation makes this her cause, in the day,
so rapidly approaching, of her boundless opportunity. ..."
2. A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents by Francis Wharton (1887)
"... has attained the number ours has—yearly increasing at a compound rate—and such
the impetus with which it is forcing its way, resistlessly, westward. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1899)
"Into the grass, and through it, with the flintlocks scorching their faces and
the iron shower hurtling broadcast, they drove resistlessly through and over ..."
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