All 4 Uses of
indefinitely
in
1984 by Orwell
- Their luck would hold indefinitely, and they would carry on their intrigue, just like this, for the remainder of their natural lives.†
p. 151..9 *
- The inhabitants of these areas, reduced more or less openly to the status of slaves, pass continually from conqueror to conqueror, and are expended like so much coal or oil in the race to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, to control more labor power, to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, and so on indefinitely.†
p. 187..9
- For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.†
p. 214..9
- For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely.†
p. 216..8
Definition:
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(indefinitely) for an unspecified, but long period of time; or forever