Resistlessly

Origin

From resistless + -ly

Full definition of resistlessly

Adverb

1. (archaic, chiefly literary) In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition.
• 1855, Walt Whitman, "A Song of the Rolling Earth," in Leaves of Grass:Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and
• sixty-five resistlessly round the sun
• 1879, John McElroy, Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, ch. 76:Sherman was sweeping resistlessly across the State.
• 1913, Jack London, John Barleycorn, ch. 1:And by alcoholic I mean a man whose chemistry craves alcohol and drives him resistlessly to it.
• 1921, Margaret Pedler, The Lamp of Fate, ch. 19: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.

Synonyms

• irresistibly, unresistingly