remitless
English
Etymology
remit + -less
Adjective
remitless (not comparable)
- Without remit or letup.
- 1855, Ezra Sampson, The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Man, page 73:
- Who, in spite of feebleness of frame, foregoes sleep, and patiently endures a course of remitless watchings of incredible length ?
- 1974, Ian M. G. Quimby, Polly Anne Earl, Technological Innovation and the Decorative Arts:
- "Every way considered," he confided to a friend, "there are customs and habits so interwoven with the very fibers of things as in some respects to be almost hopelessly remitless."
- 1991, Seth Morgan, Homeboy, page 224:
- Joe only hoped the remitless heat wasn't driving him stir crazy.