"resistlessly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1879, John McElroy, chapter 76, in Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons:",
          "text": "Sherman was sweeping resistlessly across the State.",
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          "ref": "1892, Walt Whitman, “A Song of the Rolling Earth”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 178:",
          "text": "Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun; / Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.",
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          "ref": "1913 August, Jack London, chapter I, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 8:",
          "text": "And by alcoholic I mean a man whose chemistry craves alcohol and drives him resistlessly to it.",
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          "ref": "1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 19, in The Lamp of Fate:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition."
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        "(archaic, chiefly literary) In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition."
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          "word": "irresistibly"
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        "In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition."
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        "(archaic, chiefly literary) In an unresisting manner; without objection or opposition."
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