INCESSANTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incessantly mean? 

• INCESSANTLY (adverb)
  The adverb INCESSANTLY has 2 senses:

1. with unflagging resolve

2. without interruption

  Familiarity information: INCESSANTLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCESSANTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With unflagging resolve

Synonyms:

ceaselessly; continuously; endlessly; incessantly; unceasingly; unendingly

Context example:

dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste

Pertainym:

incessant (uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without interruption

Synonyms:

always; constantly; forever; incessantly; perpetually

Context example:

the world is constantly changing

Pertainym:

incessant (uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing)

 Context examples 

And they smoked, incessantly smoked, using a coarse, cheap, and offensive-smelling tobacco.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“It was a joke, my good sir—a practical joke, nothing more,” he whined incessantly.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The form of the monster on whom I had bestowed existence was for ever before my eyes, and I raved incessantly concerning him.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The discomposure of spirits which this extraordinary visit threw Elizabeth into, could not be easily overcome; nor could she, for many hours, learn to think of it less than incessantly.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He stole Dora's watch, which, like everything else belonging to us, had no particular place of its own; and, converting it into money, spent the produce (he was always a weak-minded boy) in incessantly riding up and down between London and Uxbridge outside the coach.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you, Fanny, there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

With difficulty however could she prevent her from following him herself; and to persuade her to check her agitation, to wait, at least, with the appearance of composure, till she might speak to him with more privacy and more effect, was impossible; for Marianne continued incessantly to give way in a low voice to the misery of her feelings, by exclamations of wretchedness.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Adele was not easy to teach that day; she could not apply: she kept running to the door and looking over the banisters to see if she could get a glimpse of Mr. Rochester; then she coined pretexts to go downstairs, in order, as I shrewdly suspected, to visit the library, where I knew she was not wanted; then, when I got a little angry, and made her sit still, she continued to talk incessantly of her ami, Monsieur Edouard Fairfax de Rochester, as she dubbed him (I had not before heard his prenomens), and to conjecture what presents he had brought her: for it appears he had intimated the night before, that when his luggage came from Millcote, there would be found amongst it a little box in whose contents she had an interest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I heard the word Burglum repeated incessantly: several of the emperor’s court, making their way through the crowd, entreated me to come immediately to the palace, where her imperial majesty’s apartment was on fire, by the carelessness of a maid of honour, who fell asleep while she was reading a romance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Catherine, by whom this meeting was wholly unexpected, received her brother with the liveliest pleasure; and he, being of a very amiable disposition, and sincerely attached to her, gave every proof on his side of equal satisfaction, which he could have leisure to do, while the bright eyes of Miss Thorpe were incessantly challenging his notice; and to her his devoirs were speedily paid, with a mixture of joy and embarrassment which might have informed Catherine, had she been more expert in the development of other people's feelings, and less simply engrossed by her own, that her brother thought her friend quite as pretty as she could do herself.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)