Word Meanings - INCONTINENTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint; -- used esp. of the passions or appetites. 2. Immediately; at once; forthwith. Immediately he sent word to Athens that he would incontinently come hither with a host of men.

Additional info about word: INCONTINENTLY

1. In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint; -- used esp. of the passions or appetites. 2. Immediately; at once; forthwith. Immediately he sent word to Athens that he would incontinently come hither with a host of men. Golding.

Related words: (words related to INCONTINENTLY)

• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• WOULDINGNESS
  Willingness; desire.
• INCONTINENTLY
  1. In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint; -- used esp. of the passions or appetites. 2. Immediately; at once; forthwith. Immediately he sent word to Athens that he would incontinently come hither with a host of men.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• WOULD-BE
  ' (as, a would-be poet.
• FORTHWITH
  As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Immediately; without delay; directly. Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith.
• INCONTINENT
  Unable to restrain natural evacuations. (more info) 1. Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.
• IMMEDIATELY
  1. In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• HITHERWARD
  Toward this place; hither. Marching hitherward in proud array. Shak.
• WOULD
  Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will. Note: Would was formerly used also as the past participle of Will. Right as our Lord hath would. Chaucer.
• RESTRAINT
  1. The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental. No man was altogether above the restrains of law, and no man altogether below
• HITHER
  1. To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither. 2. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical. Hither
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• WOULDING
  Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. Hammond.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• THITHERTO
  To that point; so far.
• WHITHERWARD
  In what direction; toward what or which place. R. of Brunne. Whitherward to turn for a good course of life was by no means too apparent. Carlyle.
• UNRESTRAINT
  Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
• SOMEWHITHER
  To some indeterminate place; to some place or other. Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. Barrow.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• WHITHERSOEVER
  To whatever place; to what place soever; wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead.
• BEHITHER
  On this side of. Two miles behither Clifden. Evelyn.
• ELSEWHITHER
  To some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it. R. of Gloucester."For elsewhither was I bound." Carlyle.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.