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Perpetuate vs Ceaseless - What's the difference?

perpetuate | ceaseless |

As a verb perpetuate

is to make perpetual; to preserve from extinction or oblivion.

As an adjective ceaseless is

without an end.

perpetuate

English

Verb

(perpetuat)
  • To make perpetual; to preserve from extinction or oblivion.
    • (Addison)
    (Burke)
  • To prolong the existence of.

    • Derived terms

    * perpetuable * perpetuance * perpetuation * perpetuator

    ceaseless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without an end.
  • Without stop or pause, incessant.
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    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}