adv. Obs. Also 5 vncessantle, 6 vncessaunt(e)ly(e, 6–7 uncessantlie; 6 vnceassantly. [Cf. prec.] = INCESSANTLY adv. (Very common c. 1550–1690.)
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., iii. 147. It shall begyn full sone to rayn vncessantle.
1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke xix. 147 b. But the Iewes … kepyng sylence of the glorie of Christ…, the stones vnceassauntely crye it out.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 282. Such a one searcheth the very heart and entrayles of the ground, for gold and siluer, unceassantly.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXXII. xv. 817. The assault and batterie continuing uncessantly both night & day, overcame at length the … valour of the Macedonians.
1651. H. More, 2nd Lash, in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656), 213. Putting the body … into a perpetuall motion, so that the parts fridge one against another uncessantly.
1691. Norris, Pract. Disc., 329. They … must needs … be carried out uncessantly and intirely toward the Supream Good.
