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from The Century Dictionary.
- Uncontrollably.
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Examples
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I read the last few chapters whilst sitting in British Airways Club World (my first time on the upper deck!), ready to fly back to HK, and the tears started rolling down my face as we started to taxi to the runway and just before take off I was sobbing incontrollably.
Harry Potter and the literary sink-hole « Sven’s guide to… 2007
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In real english the wing is moving far too fast through the air and the air around it is changing so much that it starts fluttering incontrollably.
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I am incontrollably, shockingly, core-shakingly excited and amazed that the woman who has walked beside me all my life is going to be a mother.
Archive 2007-09-01 Jessica 2007
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I am incontrollably, shockingly, core-shakingly excited and amazed that the woman who has walked beside me all my life is going to be a mother.
Aching for Normal Jessica 2007
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This lesson - that torture is habit-forming and metastasizes incontrollably throughout the system - is the most powerful - perhaps the only - argument against it.
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The fire burnt as warmly as ever, but Sophie was trembling incontrollably, and her heart was beating most unmercifully.
Bressant Julian Hawthorne 1890
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These are the cabinet councils of the soul; and it is certain that God does not take his estimate of a man from any thing so much as from the regular or irregular behaviour of these: for as a man thinks or desires in his heart, such indeed he is; for then most truly, because most incontrollably, he acts himself.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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The mines of Peru would not supply the monies which would be wasted on this object, nor the patience of any people stand the abuses which would be incontrollably committed under it.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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