incessive

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Intense and active.

   • The primordial wants have been satisfied only by incessive toil, at least for most people.
2. 2

   Fierce

   Fierce; cruel and aggressive.

   • What strange lessons of preistly domination do we read in the institutions of Knights Templar, the preaching of Crusades against the Infidel, and those bitter, incessive dissensions between kings and popes!
   • War, the institution, the incessive monster which devours whole peoples, the world has learned to hate.
   • Because of its incessive conflicts with warlords and the Japanese, the Nationalist Party had to adopt a Soviet-type model for its political bureacratic structure.
3. 3

   Continual or successive

   Continual or successive; unceasing.

   • Some Northern Murdochs may be of the same stock of the Murthacs of Rothes, heirs of the Pollocks, and progenitors through incessive heiresses of the Watsons and Leslies of Rothes.
   • We passed the Great Bras d'Or on the ice at the imminent risk of our lives, so rotten had the ice become owing to the effect of five or six days incessive thaw.
   • The Nadars diversified their professional activities and made their imprint on every profession through an incessive process of modernisation.
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   1. 4

      Tending to incite or inflame

      Tending to incite or inflame; incensive.

      • There is an incessive bravery about the book, that tells you at once that the writer is in the deepest sympathy with the great soul whem he portrays, and the cause for which the martyred one bled.
      • "Thou hast asked me who I am," He began in the same low incessive accents.
      • In a dispatch dated 4th March 1911, Baron Guillaume mentions that in Germany, along the French frontier, an incessive propaganda is employed with the object of furthering the desertions from the German army to the French Foreign Legion.
   2. 5

      Insightful

      Insightful; deep and succinct; incisive.

      • We suppose cold, clear, incessive, and formal reasoning; the expression of the greatest possible amount of truth in the simplest and fewish possible words, and the avoidance of anything in the shape of high-flown or flowery language.
      • His preaching is characterized by spiritual insight, incessive utterance, luminous presentation of truth, and over it all there is the glow of a refined imagination which charms while it impresses.
      • The present volume contains two of his most incessive and illuminating discourses on important aspects of Ayurveda.
   3. 6

      Critical and accurate

      Critical and accurate; incisive.

      • Here he engaged in a controversy with Voltaire, in which he was lashed by the incessive wit and satire of his own countrymen, and obliged to retire to France, where he died at Basel in 1759.
      • My dear Angelina completed the predicate for me with a voluminous appendix, annotated through the agency of her incessive and florid vocabulary.
      • We should offer incessive criticism of the conditions under which the work is done and at the same time show our ...
   4. 7

      Intruding inward.

      • On the right cheek, just below the incessive tearing, and only a mild redness.
      • In the new genus Bathyopsurus, the incessive part and the lacinia (on the left mandible) are well developed.
   5. 8

      Included.

   6. 9

      Synonym of inessive.

      • Indeed, in terms of semantic nuances, Igbo cases are more in line with the Fino-Ugric cases which express spatio-temporal relations thus: Interior: Incessive; talose; 'in the house'
   7. 10

      Durative.

      • In Thao, however, triplication does not express plurality but rather some sort of aspectual modification (continuative or incessive).
      • As a further example of unclear cases, the so-called incessive – a fast recurrence of some typical properties - is included under the iterative by Rathmann (2005), but subsumed under the habitual by Wilbur (1987).

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