"incessancy" meaning in English

See incessancy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: incessancies [plural]
Etymology: From incessant. Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} incessancy (usually uncountable, plural incessancies)
  1. The quality of being incessant; unceasingness. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-incessancy-en-noun-CWA2wDn4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1794, Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill:",
          "text": "Or chatter, with incessancy of tongue / Careless, if kind, or cruel, right, or wrong",
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          "ref": "1891, “Incessancy of the Yellow Warbler's Song”, in The Oölogist, volume 9, page 65:",
          "text": "Most birds confine their song principally to the morning and evening hours, and if they do not do this entirely, they surely quiet down at midday, when scarcely a sound is to be heard, but not so the Yellow Warbler,–morning, noon, and night, he keeps it up, and the incessancy of his singing has become to be a matter of remark.",
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          "text": "What troubled them was its incessancy.",
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