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Etymology

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From pause +‎ -less.

Adjective

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pauseless (not comparable)

  1. Without pausing; ceaseless.
    • 2009 June 27, Alastair Macaulay, “What Carthage Women Wanted, as Imagined (and Danced) by Men”, in New York Times[1]:
      This makes searing sense of the pauseless transition between the third and fourth scenes: here, this heroine has no sooner left the stage as Aeneas’s public paramour than she at once runs back on, hair flying, to order his departure.

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