Both Uses of
incessant
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes, incessantly rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality, of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to the crown.†
Chpt 17incessantly = continuously
- Because attraction between agent(s) and reagent(s) at all instants varied, with inverse proportion of increase and decrease, with incessant circular extension and radial reentrance.†
Chpt 17 *incessant = continuous (and often annoying)
Definition:
continuous -- often in an annoying way