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Unresisting vs Resistlessly - What's the difference?

unresisting | resistlessly |

As an adjective unresisting

is not resisting; compliant.

As an adverb resistlessly is

(archaic|chiefly|literary) in an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition.

unresisting

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not resisting; compliant.

    • resistlessly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (archaic, chiefly, literary) In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition.
  • * 1855 , , "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 , , Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons , ch. 76:
    • Sherman was sweeping resistlessly across the State.
  • * 1913 , , John Barleycorn , ch. 1:
    • And by alcoholic I mean a man whose chemistry craves alcohol and drives him resistlessly to it.
  • * 1921 , , 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