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Meaning of incessive | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/ɪnˈsɛs.ɪv/

Definitions

  1. Intense and active.
  2. Fierce; cruel and aggressive.
  3. Continual or successive; unceasing.
  4. Tending to incite or inflame; incensive.
  5. Insightful; deep and succinct; incisive.
  6. Critical and accurate; incisive.
  7. Intruding inward.
  8. Included.
  9. Synonym of inessive.
  10. Durative.

Examples

“In both species it is impossible for the eye to follow the incessive movements of the feet, and to compare them with those of other quadrupeds, but from their chrono-photographic images it is easy to see that, taking the order of the movements of the limbs as a standard, the lizards are trotting animals.”
“The primordial wants have been satisfied only by incessive toil, at least for most people.”
“It is true, the atmospheric regions, at first subnuvolar, soon became enubilated; and old Sol did not radiate his sudorific caloric so potently as on the hesternal day, but the roads had, in some places, become lutulent and somewhat clarty; presenting a great difficiliation to my incessive velocity, on account of the viscosity of the surface.”
“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.”
“The image of the Nigerian police became worse during the military era as the force became a ready tool of repression for incessive repressive military regimes.”
“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.”
“He is a good man, but his incessive worrying is a bit annoying.”
“So, why I started with my incessive nervous immediate questioning of, “Oh my God, did you lose your job?”
“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.”
“He also shows him the results obtained by the artillery of the army corps (or by the heavy artillery of the army) in its distinctive fire, by means of incessive photographs of the positions fired on.”
“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.”
“Even long after he had achieved fame throughout the English-speaking world, Dennis wrote, he maintained a "keen interest in public affairs and his comments on men and measures were as admirably conceived and as incessive as ever."”
“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 ...”
“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.”
“The opening sentence is very risky. " I found myself standing on my feet " is apt to destroy all proper solemnity of feeling by suggesting that it would, on the whole, have been more remarkable if the gentleman had found himself standing on his head. To " stand upon one's feet " is indeed excellent English; but in excellent English it always has (so far as we remember) an incessive sense — " to rise upon the feet and stand " — which is wanting here.”
“...that which lies very much within the frame, that which is incessant, or certainly 'incessive' (it lies within the frame), but which exceeds our perception not because invisible (out of frame) but in spite of being visible (in the frame).”
“The Hungarian 'incessive' -ban/-ben (e.g., ha'z-ban “in the house”, ke'z-ben “in the hand”) arose from the postposition benn; today it appears in a non-case form only in adverbial usage with possessive suffixes (e.g., bennem “in me”, benned “in you”).”
“In this too the loc. marker is identical with Acc. marker. Besides, various spatial relations of the loc. case, such as surfacessive (on, upon, etc.) incessive (in, inside of, within), possessive (with-in the possession ol), etc., are expressed with various sets of . - postpositions in different speeches under consideration (For their details see respective volumes of the 'Studies in T.H.L.' 1988-92).”
“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'”
“The presence of the feature progression means that the activity denoted by the primary verb is understood as a succession of events indicated by this verb either directed towards a goal (pre-terminative) or directed from a point with its goal unspecified (post" inceptive). In this sense the pre-terminative succession can be confused with the incessive process (the explicator ) of a state of an event denoted by a verb.”
“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).”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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