resistlesslyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪstləsli/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈzɪstləsli/
• ハイフネーション: re‧sist‧less‧ly

副詞

resistlessly (not comparable)

1. (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 1514723, 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 264225, page 8:

     And by alcoholic I mean a man whose chemistry craves alcohol and drives him resistlessly to it.