All 4 Uses
incessant
in
The Death of Ivan Ilych
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- For the last three days he screamed incessantly.†
Chpt 1incessantly = continuously
- He alone knew that with the consciousness of the injustices done him, with his wife's incessant nagging, and with the debts he had contracted by living beyond his means, his position was far from normal.†
Chpt 3incessant = continuous (and often annoying)
- The pain in his side oppressed him and seemed to grow worse and more incessant
Chpt 4 *incessant = continuous
- Then again, his friends would suddenly begin to chaff him in a friendly way about his low spirits, as if the awful, horrible, and unheard-of thing that was going on within him, incessantly gnawing at him and irresistibly drawing him away, was a very agreeable subject for jests.†
Chpt 4incessantly = continuously
Definitions:
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(1)
(incessant) continuous -- often in an annoying way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)