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unˈceasing, ppl. a.
Also 4–5 vnce(e)s(s)ynge, 5 vncecynge.
[un-1 10.]
Never ceasing, incessant, continuous. (Common from c 1750.)
1382Wyclif 2 Pet. ii. 14 Hauynge iȝen ful of auoutrie, and vncesynge trespasse, deceyuynge vnstedefast soules. 1410Prymer in Maskell Mon. Rit. III. 16 To the cherubyn and seraphym crien with uncecynge vois. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes iii. xxix. 9 Nor [do thou] with unceasing Joy survey Fair æsula's declining Fields. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VIII. 157 Still millions more [of gnats] succeed, and produce unceasing torment. 1803Malthus Popul. i. vi. 75 The efforts of the German nations to colonize or plunder were unceasing. 1842Manning Serm. i. (1848) I. 6 Carrying on unceasing, universal warfare against Heaven. 1873Leland Egypt. Sketch-Bk. 196 They are still singing, those unceasing children of Egypt, that quaint old refrain.
Hence unˈceasingness.
1727Bailey (vol. II), Incessantness, Continualness, Unceasingness. (Also in recent use.) |