incontinently
1 Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of incontinently1
First recorded in 1545–55; incontinent + -ly
Origin of incontinently2
1475–85; late Middle English incontinent, in same sense (< Middle French < Late Latin in continentī ( tempore ) in continuous (time), i.e., without pause; see continent) + -ly
Example Sentences
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The only hangover symptom you’ll feel is the blush that comes from having laughed incontinently at jokes that don’t seem all that funny in the daylight.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017
Thus was the puissance of anathema incontinently squandered.
From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010
In the U. S., only brash, Johnny-jump-up William Saroyan hastens more incontinently to answer his critics than Playwright Clifford Odets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out into the field beside his house Sanborn incontinently took us to show how his girls and boys perform together their worship of Hygeia.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry
I reminded myself that I stood in loco parentis, shook hands with Philip and plunged incontinently into a sea of introductions.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen
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