Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an inconstant manner; not steadily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an inconstant manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an inconstant manner.

Etymologies

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inconstant +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • On Google's discussion boards, and in the communities of other webmasters and content site owners, there is a growing sense that Google's content-related take down notices are being generated programmatically, often inconstantly, and without a clear path to resolution or improvement of the process.

    Steve Rosenbaum: Google: At a Critical Crossroads Steve Rosenbaum 2011

  • On Google's discussion boards, and in the communities of other webmasters and content site owners, there is a growing sense that Google's content-related take down notices are being generated programmatically, often inconstantly, and without a clear path to resolution or improvement of the process.

    Steve Rosenbaum: Google: At a Critical Crossroads Steve Rosenbaum 2011

  • On Google's discussion boards, and in the communities of other webmasters and content site owners, there is a growing sense that Google's content-related take down notices are being generated programmatically, often inconstantly, and without a clear path to resolution or improvement of the process.

    Steve Rosenbaum: Google: At a Critical Crossroads Steve Rosenbaum 2011

  • The position assumed by the affected animal inconstantly varies with the location and nature of the injury and is not of particular importance in establishing a diagnosis.

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

  • Here we found the flood setting east-by-north, and the ebb west - by-south; there were shoals and small islands between us and the main, which caused the tide to set very inconstantly, and make many whirlings in the water; yet we did not find the tide to set strong any way, nor the water to rise much.

    Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier John Pinkerton 1792

  • And this was sufficient for that time to free me from all the remorse and repentance which useth to perplex the consciences of those weak and staggering minds, which inconstantly suffer themselves to passe to the practice of those things as good, which they afterwards judge evill.

    A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences Ren�� Descartes 1623

  • The Countesse had scarce made an ende of her tale, but one came to tell them that the Tables were couered for dinner: the king well fedde with Loue, dined for that time very soberly, and not able to eate but vppon amorous dishes, did caste his lokes inconstantly here and there, and still his eyes threw the last loke vppon that part of the table where the Countesse sate, meaninge thereby to extinguish the boiling flames, which incessantly did burne him, howbeit by thinking to coole them, he further plonged himselfe therein.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

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