incessant

incessant
incessant, ante
(in-sè-ssan, ssan-t') adj.
Qui ne cesse pas, qui dure sans interruption. Douleur, plainte incessante.
   On ne croirait pas, ce qui pourtant était vrai, que Napoléon, rempli de l'idée de sa puissance jusqu'à provoquer sans nécessité un nouveau conflit avec l'Europe, était en même temps assiégé par la pensée vague, confuse, mais incessante, d'un grand danger, THIERS Hist. du Cons. et de l'Emp. XLIII.
   Lat. incessantem (QUICHERAT, Addenda), de in (voy. in.... 1), et cessans, cessant.
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   INCESSANT. Ajoutez : - HIST. XVIe s.
   L'assidue et incessante baterie qui se faisoit avec grosses testes de belier, PARADIN Chron. de Savoye, p. 269.

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