incontinently
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint.
Example Sentences
- "And lest any man should think her intent was to unnestle ill neighbours, and not to aid good neighbours, or that she was readier to restore what was invaded by others than to render what was in her own hands; see if the time provided not a new occasion afterwards, when through their own division, without the intermise of strangers, her forces were again sought and required; she forsook them not, prevailed so far as to be possessed of the castle of Edinburgh, the principal strength of that kingdom, with peace, incontinently, without cunctations or cavillations, the preambles of a wavering faith, she rendered with all honour and security; and his person to safe and faithful hands; and so ever after during his minority continued his principal guardian and protector."
- "The Prieſt ties his ſtole about the neck of the poſſeſſed vvith three knots, and ſays, […] I exorciſe you [evil spirits], and adjure you, and command you, by the povver I have, that you incontinently hear the vvords of my conjuring, and perceive your ſelves overcome, and command you not to depart vvithout licenſe, and ſo I bind you vvith this ſtole of jucundity; […]"
- "On such eyes as maidens cherish / Let thy fond adorers gaze, / Or incontinently perish / In their all-consuming rays!"
- "The image which she had called up was too much for her nerves, and she fled incontinently."
Etymology
Etymology tree English incontinent Middle English -ly English -ly English incontinently From incontinent + -ly.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more incontinently (comparative)
most incontinently (superlative)