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INCESSANTLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without interruption
Example:
the world is constantly changing
Synonyms:
always; constantly; forever; incessantly; perpetually
Classified under:
Pertainym:
incessant (uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
With unflagging resolve
Example:
dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste
Synonyms:
ceaselessly; continuously; endlessly; incessantly; unceasingly; unendingly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
incessant (uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing)
Context examples:
Wilson’s hands, which moved incessantly in and out, had been stained with some astringent juice with the purpose of preventing them from puffing, and so great was the contrast between them and his white forearms, that I imagined that he was wearing dark, close-fitting gloves until my uncle explained the matter in a whisper.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His eyes had the brightness of fever, there was a hectic flush upon either cheek, and dark crusts clung to his lips; the thin hands upon the coverlet twitched incessantly, his voice was croaking and spasmodic.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He ran out and ran in, smoked incessantly, played snatches on his violin, sank into reveries, devoured sandwiches at irregular hours, and hardly answered the casual questions which I put to him.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil incessantly.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Miss Lavinia was going on to make some rejoinder, when Miss Clarissa, who appeared to be incessantly beset by a desire to refer to her brother Francis, struck in again: If Dora's mama, she said, when she married our brother Francis, had at once said that there was not room for the family at the dinner-table, it would have been better for the happiness of all parties.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Lydia talked incessantly of lottery tickets, of the fish she had lost and the fish she had won; and Mr. Collins in describing the civility of Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, protesting that he did not in the least regard his losses at whist, enumerating all the dishes at supper, and repeatedly fearing that he crowded his cousins, had more to say than he could well manage before the carriage stopped at Longbourn House.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
My aunt informed me how he incessantly occupied himself in copying everything he could lay his hands on, and kept King Charles the First at a respectful distance by that semblance of employment; how it was one of the main joys and rewards of her life that he was free and happy, instead of pining in monotonous restraint; and how (as a novel general conclusion) nobody but she could ever fully know what he was.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
All the time we were out, the two gentlemen smoked incessantly—which, I thought, if I might judge from the smell of their rough coats, they must have been doing, ever since the coats had first come home from the tailor's.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This consideration set me thinking and thinking of an imaginary party where people were dancing the hours away, until that became a dream too, and I heard the music incessantly playing one tune, and saw Dora incessantly dancing one dance, without taking the least notice of me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
