Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unceasingly; continuously.
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Examples
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Since attaining years of discretion, until the day when I finished my ‘Theory,’ I observed, learned, wrote, and read unintermittingly; my life was one long imposition, as schoolboys say.
The Magic Skin 2007
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She played unintermittingly — played as if the music was her only refuge from herself.
The Woman in White 2003
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The attention of the French Government is now unintermittingly occupied in efforts to raise the manufactures of the kingdom, but whilst the war makes such large demands, trade must necessarily be cramped.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney
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Our country, isolated from the contending nations, and fortified against continual ruptures by a policy of non-intervention, is peculiarly blessed with the privilege and ability to regularly and unintermittingly conduct her commerce and reap her profits, even more securely, while her rivals are temporarily devoting their attention to war.
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
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But that was what a gentleman ought not to tolerate: to be scourged unintermittingly on the legs by any grub of a gardener, unless it were Father Adam himself, was a thing that he could not bring his mind to face. '
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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[1] The Occasion and the Men. interrupted by the public cares this leader of thought and action sustained almost unintermittingly through his long life.
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Not only was the victim's life proscribed, but his property was proscribed also; and the man who busied himself in carrying out the great butcher's business assiduously, ardently, and unintermittingly, was rewarded by the property so obtained.
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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A search, continued unintermittingly for a week among the hotels and lodging-houses of Boston, proved finally successful.
Dr. Heidenhoff's Process Edward Bellamy 1874
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The sun shines unintermittingly for fifteen days, raising a temperature as fervid as boiling water.
Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Henry White Warren 1871
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The dead are patient, and we get a certain likeness to them in feeding on it unintermittingly overlong.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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