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Definition of Incessantness
1. Noun. The quality of something that continues without end or interruption.
Generic synonyms: Endlessness
Derivative terms: Ceaseless, Continuous, Incessant, Incessant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incessantness
Literary usage of Incessantness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"These freedoms were granted to the people, not out of any love to them, but
extorted from princes by fury of war, or incessantness of address; and, ..."
2. Unforeseen Tendencies of Democracy by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1898)
"... the incessantness with which the people sought after better ways of living in
society. Greece was, for this purpose, somewhat in our position ; that is, ..."
3. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold (1913)
"... often bites the best friend of the house in his calves, barks incessantly,
and just because of this incessantness of his barking cannot get listened to, ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1904)
"... incessantness of incident, without Dumas' reduction of everything almost to
naked dialogue, it never leaves the reader halting, but sweeps on with an ..."
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