Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an incontinent manner; without restraint; with unrestrained appetites or passions; specifically, with undue indulgence of the sexual appetite.
- Without holding back; without delay; forthwith; at once.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint.
- adv. archaic Immediately; at once; forthwith.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint; -- used esp. of the passions or appetites.
- adv. Archaic Immediately; at once; forthwith.
Etymologies
- incontinent + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The yeomanry of the country -- those to whom, as we are annually told, the nation looks with confidence in all her perils -- packed up their carts and wagons, and "incontinently" departed for more peaceful regions!”
“Five minutes before, he did not even dream of taking charge of the expedition; but when she came to him with her wonderful smile and her straight clean English, and talked to the point, without pleading or persuading, he had incontinently yielded.”
“McAllister was in such a rage that the prime minister incontinently fled, to return with the king himself.”
“Francisco of 1887 as incontinently intermingled its slums and mansions as did the old cities of Europe.”
“I fear me the ship would have gone aground on the outlying reef and that its people would have been incontinently and monotonously drowned.”
“Instinct urged Maidie to strike him, or to wrench herself from his grasp, and run incontinently away.”
“Didn't we mean 'incoherently' instead of 'incontinently?”
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“Babbling incontinently about having ‘vision’ and being ‘radical’ and ‘progressive’ and how ‘my generation will not throw away the privilege of government’ in order to bring about this radical and progressive change for Britain – a fruity way, surely, of trying to justify his patent cowardice in not resigning to help force Gordon Brown out -- it was the example of radicalism that he came up with which was so astounding.”
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“I will just say here that I am surprised that you think you can incontinently poison the wells of debate and yet expect your opponent to respond as if this were the normal behaviour of a civilised or minimally intelligent person.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Babbling incontinently about having ‘vision’ and being ‘radical’ and ‘progressive’ and how ‘my generation will not throw away the privilege of government’ in order to bring about this radical and progressive change for Britain – a fruity way, surely, of trying to justify his patent cowardice in not resigning to help ...”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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