incessantly

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16
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19
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11
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈsɛs.ənt.li/(US)

Definition of incessantly

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (not-comparable)In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.
    “He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.”
    “We see the eye subdued, the practised smile, / The word well weighed before it pass the lip, / And know not of the misery within: / Yet there it works incessantly, and fears / The time to come; for time is terrible, / Avenging, and betraying.”
    “There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.”
    “"You are old, Father William," the young man said, / "And your hair has become very white; / And yet you incessantly stand on your head— / Do you think, at your age, it is right?"”
    “But just there a small hairy terrier exploded out at the gate, like a floor-mop impelled by some sort of internal combustion, which sent him off into a frenzy of yapping, incessantly jerked backwards by the explosive force of his own detonations.”
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adv

  1. (not-comparable)In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.
    “He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.”
    “We see the eye subdued, the practised smile, / The word well weighed before it pass the lip, / And know not of the misery within: / Yet there it works incessantly, and fears / The time to come; for time is terrible, / Avenging, and betraying.”
    “There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.”
    “"You are old, Father William," the young man said, / "And your hair has become very white; / And yet you incessantly stand on your head— / Do you think, at your age, it is right?"”
    “But just there a small hairy terrier exploded out at the gate, like a floor-mop impelled by some sort of internal combustion, which sent him off into a frenzy of yapping, incessantly jerked backwards by the explosive force of his own detonations.”
  2. (not-comparable, obsolete)Immediately.

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Etymology

From incessant + -ly.

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