continently

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Definition of continently

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a continent, chaste, moderate manner
    “All this time your humble correspondent was continently waiting in the grand corridor leading from the Commons to the Lords, which, however, is by far the best place for the curious spectator at this stage of the proceedings.”
    “I swear at my life's perversities with only a fatigued contempt due partly to bodily fragileness but mostly to a cold continently reckless mood which is clasped on me like a strong stupefied devil-fish.”
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adv

  1. In a continent, chaste, moderate manner
    “All this time your humble correspondent was continently waiting in the grand corridor leading from the Commons to the Lords, which, however, is by far the best place for the curious spectator at this stage of the proceedings.”
    “I swear at my life's perversities with only a fatigued contempt due partly to bodily fragileness but mostly to a cold continently reckless mood which is clasped on me like a strong stupefied devil-fish.”
  2. continuously
    “A violent explosion shook the air, and a spout of water, steam, mud, and shattered metal shot far up into the sky. As the camera of the Heat-Ray hit the water, the latter had continently flashed into steam. In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore, but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend up-stream.”

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Etymology

From continent + -ly.

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