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c1786 T. Jefferson Thoughts on Eng. Prosody in Writings (1903) XVIII. 447 I have essayed these short passages to let the foreigner see that the accent is not equal; that they are not to be read monotonously.

1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) iii. 51 The noise consists in a short, but not rough, nasal grunt, which is monotonously repeated about four times.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe v. 286 Wreaths of mist..chased each other monotonously along the rocky ribs.

1882 Cent. Mag. Jan. 392/1 Khorsabad yielded twenty-six pairs of these monotonously prim portal-guardians.

1926 A. Huxley Jesting Pilate iii. 248 The trees might just be saying, ‘Foreign Devil, Foreign Devil’, and repeating it monotonously, mile after mile.

1942 National Geographic Mag. June Picture insert 786–95 (caption) Monotonously all day long during the nesting season this red-eyed vireo, sometimes called ‘preacher bird’, calls out ‘Look up—way up—tree top’, etc.

1986 R. Thomas White Dove vi. 136 The rain dripped monotonously from the trees in Berkeley Square.

1912 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 13 447 V_n(x_n″) increases monotonously with n.

1938 Physical Rev. 54 948/1 F(α) is a monotonously decreasing function.

1954 D. ter Haar Elem. Statistical Mech. 444 ln x is a monotonously increasing function of x.

1974 Nature 17 May 243/2 The torque might have been expected to decrease monotonously as the polymer dissolved.

1999 IEEE Trans. Information Theory 45 810 A sequence of real numbers converging monotonously to 0.