Meanings
adjectivepauseless (not comparable)
- not comparableWithout pausing; ceaseless.
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.
2009 June 27, Alastair Macaulay, “What Carthage Women Wanted, as Imagined (and Danced) by Men”, in New York Times
Origin
Translations
German pausenlos
- pausenloswithout a pause
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APA
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Chicago
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