adv. Also 4 vncesendly, -cessandly, -seshandle; 5 vncessyngly, -sessyngly, unsessyngly. [f. prec. + -LY2.] Without ceasing: incessantly.
c. 1340. Hampole, Prose Tr., 3. Wharefore, what may do faile vn-to hym þat couaytes vn-cessandly for to lufe þe name of Ihesu?
1382. Wyclif, Isaiah, Prol. For the present bacbityng by which me enemys vncesendely to-tern, he to me ȝelde meede in tyme to come.
c. 1425. Found. St. Barth., II. xxviii. All the benefetys … that hath be don yn the portys of the see … unsessyngly.
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, 101. Þat þai godis giftis knawand in al þer hart hym þa suld glorify & lufe vncessyngly.
1779. Mirror, No. 37. To wear high feathers, and to wave them more unceasingly than any other ladies.
1809. Pinkney, Trav. France, 147. They are temperate, unceasingly gay, and sufficiently clad.
1880. ‘Ouida,’ Moths, I. vii. 161. She was harassed by the sense of being unceasingly criticised.
