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Webster 1913 Edition


Incessancy

In-ces′san-cy

,
Noun.
[From
Incessant
.]
The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.
Dr. T. Dwight.

Webster 1828 Edition


Incessancy

INCES'SANCY

,
Noun.
[from incessant.] Unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.

Definition 2024


incessancy

incessancy

English

Noun

incessancy (usually uncountable, plural incessancies)

  1. The quality of being incessant; unceasingness.
    • 1794, Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill:
      Or chatter, with incessancy of tongue / Careless, if kind, or cruel, right, or wrong
    • 1891, “Incessancy of the Yellow Warbler's Song”, in The Oölogist, volume 9, page 65:
      Most birds confine their song principally to the morning and evening hours, and if they do not do this entirely, they surely quiet down at midday, when scarcely a sound is to be heard, but not so the Yellow Warbler,–morning, noon, and night, he keeps it up, and the incessancy of his singing has become to be a matter of remark.
    • 2003, Richmond Barbour, Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East, 1576-1626, page 68:
      What troubled them was its incessancy.