continently

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1. In a continent, chaste, moderate manner

   I swear at my life's perversities with only a fatigued contempt due partly to bodily fragileness but mostly to a cold continently reckless mood which is clasped on me like a strong stupefied devil-fish.

   1917, Mary MacLane, I, Mary MacLane

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   All this time your humble correspondent was continently waiting in the grand corridor leading from the Commons to the Lords, which, however, is by far the best place for the curious spectator at this stage of the proceedings.

   1861-1862, Henry Parkes, Australian views of England

   Synonyms: chastely, moderately, temperately, becomingly, chastely, correctly, decently, decorously

2. continuously

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   A violent explosion shook the air, and a spout of water, steam, mud, and shattered metal shot far up into the sky. As the camera of the Heat-Ray hit the water, the latter had continently flashed into steam. In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore, but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend up-stream.

   1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, (please specify the page number(s))

   Synonyms: constantly, persistently, unremittingly, ceaselessly, consecutively, constantly, continually, continuously