Objection vs Resistlessly - What's the difference?
objection | resistlessly |
The act of objecting.
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(legal) An official protest raised in a court of law during a legal trial over a violation of the rules of the court by the opposing party.
(archaic, chiefly, literary) In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition.
* 1855 , , "A Song of the Rolling Earth," in Leaves of Grass :
*:: sixty-five resistlessly round the sun
* 1879 , , Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons , ch. 76:
* 1913 , , John Barleycorn , ch. 1:
* 1921 , , The Lamp of Fate , ch. 19:
As a noun objection
is the act of objecting.As an adverb resistlessly is
(archaic|chiefly|literary) in an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition.objection
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Noun
(en noun)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "objection": serious, conscientious, fatal, grave, etc. * Verbs often used with "objection": raise, make, meet, answer, etc.resistlessly
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Adverb
(-)- Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and
- Sherman was sweeping resistlessly across the State.
- And by alcoholic I mean a man whose chemistry craves alcohol and drives him resistlessly to it.
- 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.