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adjective

Continual adj.

Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding. "He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast."

Occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent; often repeated. "The eye is deligh by a continental succession of small landscapes."

Continual proportionals (Math.), quantities in continued proportion.

Synonyms: Constant; prepetual; incessant; unceasing; uninterrupted; unintermitted; continuous. See Constant, and Continuous.

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"Continual" Quotes from Famous Books

... ever magnifying trifles, finding fault, scolding and storming, and threatening and whipping, and falling upon the child, like the continual dropping of rain in a winter day, casts a withering gloom over home, makes it repulsive to the child, gives to the parent a forbidding aspect, until the children become provoked to wrath, and regard their home as a prison, their life as a slavery, ...

— The Christian Home • Samuel Philips

... The author, therefore, trusts he may be pardoned for approaching the History of Roman Literature from a more purely literary point of view, though at the same time without sacrificing those minute and accurate details without which criticism loses half its value. The continual references to Teuffel's work, excellently translated by Dr. W. Wagner, will bear sufficient testimony to the estimation in which the author holds it, and the obligations which he ...

— A History of Roman Literature - From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius • Charles Thomas Cruttwell

... would only give her strength; but Heaven never did! One thing was indispensable; she must go away from Hintock if she meant to withstand further temptation. The struggle was too wearying, too hopeless, while she remained. It was but a continual capitulation of conscience to ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... her hymn-book on the table and sat down to listen to Paul's words, which the sandy gentleman read to a continual nervous ...

— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson

... young men of Concord used to skate to Lowell, on favorable occasions, and back again, nearly thirty miles in all, and thought nothing of it. Concord River with its grassy banks, picturesque bridges and continual change of hill and meadow scenery is one of the prettiest ...

— Sketches from Concord and Appledore • Frank Preston Stearns

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