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consistently

adv
/kənˈsɪstəntli/

Etymology

From consistent + -ly.

  1. derived from *stísteh₂ti✻
  2. derived from *ḱóm✻
  3. borrowed from consistens
  4. formed as consistently — “consistent + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a consistent manner.

    • Thus from October 1 the French National Railways made a number of changes in their services and consistently in the direction of higher speeds.
    • The penile mishaps (one involving a bristled toothbrush), severings (one involves hungry ducks) and surgeries cited by Ms. Roach are nothing if not memorable, but her book consistently undermines its own discoveries.

  2. constantly

    constantly; always.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at consistently. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at consistently. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at consistently

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA