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incessant

English

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From Late Middle English incessaunte, from Late Latin incessāns, incessantem, from Latin in- +‎ cessāns.

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incessant (comparative more incessant, superlative most incessant)

  1. Without pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.
    Synonyms: unremitting, continuous, unceasing
    The dog's incessant barking kept the girl awake all night.
    • 1807, George Campbell, Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, page 274:
      […] incessant interferings and bickerings, in every country, between the secular powers and the ecclesiastical.
    • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:
      The face of Nature may be compared to a yielding surface, with ten thousand sharp wedges packed close together and driven inwards by incessant blows, sometimes one wedge being struck, and then another with greater force.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:incessant.

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ cessant.

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incessant m or f (masculine and feminine plural incessants)

  1. incessant

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French

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ cessant [1]

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  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.sɛ.sɑ̃/ ~ /ɛ̃.se.sɑ̃/

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incessant (feminine incessante, masculine plural incessants, feminine plural incessantes)

  1. incessant
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  1. ^ “incessant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Verb

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incessant

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of incessō
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