incessancy
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From incessant.
Noun
[edit]incessancy (usually uncountable, plural incessancies)
- The quality of being incessant; unceasingness.
- 1794, Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill:
- Or chatter, with incessancy of tongue / Careless, if kind, or cruel, right, or wrong
- 1891, “Incessancy of the Yellow Warbler's Song”, in The Oölogist[1], volume 9, page 65:
- Most birds confine their song principally to the morning and evening hours, and if they do not do this entirely, they surely quiet down at midday, when scarcely a sound is to be heard, but not so the Yellow Warbler,–morning, noon, and night, he keeps it up, and the incessancy of his singing has become to be a matter of remark.
- 2003, Richmond Barbour, Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East, 1576-1626[2], page 68:
- What troubled them was its incessancy.