incessant

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It seemed to her that this was to be incessant, and that being grown up was to be at the mercy of sorrow and uncertainty.

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  1. adjective Continuing without interruption. See Synonyms at continual.

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  • Taken has startling efficiency different from the incessant, agitating blur of the Bourne movies. —  New York Press
  • Somehow an insidious and pesky infection called UCleaner or UDefender showed up on my computer -- incessant pop-ups, etc. —  AfterDawn.com
  • LARRAINE: It's incessant, the issues that I've had with the breast cancer.
  • "Near-incessant, easy-rolling songs by local artists figure prominently in, and sometimes comment on, the slight but ingratiating narrative." —  The Evening Class
  • All this incessant is he or isn't he not just with Lindsey but many other people is so frustrating because it perpetuates the belief that being gay is literally the Thing That Cannot Be Said and does nothing to further acceptance and understanding from both the gay and straight communities. —  Queerty
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English incessaunte, from Late Latin incessāns, incessant- : Latin in-, not; see in-1 + Latin cessāns, present participle of cessāre, to stop; see cease.

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  1. = French incessant = Spanish incesante = Portuguese Italian incessante, from Late Latin incessan(t-)s (in adverb incessanter), from Latin in- privative + cessan(t-)s, present participle of cessare, cease: see cease.
 

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