incessantly

Definition

In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.

Etymology

From incessant + -ly.

Example Sentences

• "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."

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