incessant
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- incessancy noun
- incessantly adverb
- incessantness noun
Etymology
Origin of incessant
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English incessaunte, from Late Latin incessant-, equivalent to Latin in- negative prefix + cessant- (stem of cessāns ), present participle of cessāre “to stop work”; in- 3, cease, -ant
Example Sentences
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With weeks to go, Will says the calls and emails to Star Gaze from people asking where their tickets were had become incessant.
From BBC
U-boats, Mr. Moorhouse tells us, were also plagued by malfunctioning torpedoes, mechanical failures and, eventually, the incessant—and often successful—depth-charge attacks of Allied warships.
Freedom, Nehru continued, as not an end but a beginning - "not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving".
From BBC
Imagine “the incessant clack of cowboy boots against the cobblestones” that could have been, he thinks.
"Iraq has seen the American army, then civil war between Sunnis and Shiites, and now there's ISIS. We've been through many incessant conflicts, but we still need peace because we believe in humanity," she said.
From Barron's
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