Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incessant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Incessant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Obsolete form of
incessant .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word uncessant.
Examples
-
"uncessant" sitter, the credulous scratcher, the fussy cackler who produced the "Magnalia."
The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907
-
Norton, in his sketch of John Cotton, remarks that "the hen, which brings not forth without uncessant sitting night and day, is an apt emblem of students."
The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907
-
And what felicity, what enjoyment can there be in uncessant labour?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
-
I quote Milton's "Alas, what boots it with uncessant care ...."
-
(Ionas Arngrimus.) [16]] which waters I suppose to be driuen about the globe of the earth by the uncessant mouing and impulsion of the heauens, and not to bee swallowed vp and cast vp againe by the breathing of Demogorgon, as some haue imagined, because they see the seas by increase and decrease to ebbe and flowe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.