never-ceasing, a.
[never 7 b.]
Unceasing, ceaseless; constant, continual.
| c 1602 F. Davison in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) II. 326, I thine aid importune With neuer-ceasing cries. 1670 Devout Commun. (1688) 172 Multiplied with a never-ceasing numeration. 1738 Wesley Ps. vi. iv, With never-ceasing Moans I languish for Relief. 1826 Milman A. Boleyn (1827) 33 The full organ's never-ceasing sound. 1878 Huxley Physiogr. 129 There is a never-ceasing transference of solid matter from the land to the ocean. |
Hence never-ceasingly adv.
| 1869 J. Haig Symbolism i. 1 The thoughts of each are necessarily, or never-ceasingly, confined to himself alone. |