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▪ I. inˈcontinently, adv.1
[f. incontinent a. + -ly2.]
In an incontinent manner; loosely, unchastely.
1552Huloet, Incontinently, solute. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 611 It is an unseemly thing..to live delicately, loosely, or incontinently. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. vii. §28 Queen Isabel..living incontinently with R. Mortimer. 1755Johnson, Incontinently, unchastely; without restraint of the appetites.
▪ II. incontinently, adv.2 arch.|ɪnˈkɒntɪnəntlɪ|
[f. incontinent adv. + -ly2.]
Straightway, at once, immediately; = incontinent adv.
1484Caxton Fables of æsop v. v, Incontynently as the dogges perceyued and sawe the foxe and the catte, they beganne to renne vpon them. 1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 14 §4 The said clerke..shall incontinentlie without delaie certifie the saide names. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. x. (1810) 337 Sir Charles incontinently dispatched a Horseman with Letters to the President. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy IV. xxvii, The effect of which was this, that he leapt incontinently up. 1844Emerson Lect., Young American Wks. (Bohn) II. 297 If one of the flock [of wolves]..so much as limp, the rest eat him up incontinently. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. (ed. 2) 426 My cheery friend..presented me incontinently to the lecturer. |