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For example, "the storms winds blew without abate", or some such usage.
"without fail" and "continues unabated" exist.
Somehow, I have it in my head that "without abate" exists, but maybe a couple different expressions are getting mixed up in my head?
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From wrath-red dawn to wrath-red dawn,
The guns have brayed without abate;
And now the sick sun looks upon
The bleared, blood-boltered fields of hate
As if it loathed to rise again.from Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, by Robert William Service link
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thanks for that! i did my own search on the internet for "continues without abate" and it only came up with 26 hits... i guess at best it's a pretty estoeric usage. i used it in a translation i did for a japanese company and they flagged it as incorrect. perhaps they're basically correct.
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You might say, "endlessly" or something like that, depending on the context.
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"without-abate" gets 1170 hits
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"without-abate" gets 1170 hits Just so I can keep learning how to use the computer: where do you go to get these "hits"?
----please, draw me a sheep----
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I get 1190. <shrug> link (some call these ghits, for google-hits.) - joe (but note many of these are specious) friday
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I get 1,560 ghits going to tsuwm's link. YMMV.
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Just so I can keep learning how to use the computer: where
do you go to get these "hits"?
google.com
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