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incontinent

[in-kon-tn-uhnt] / ɪnˈkɒn tn ənt /


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Incontinent, choking out guttural noises between painful rasps, he could be any terminal patient.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

Incontinent, the elder man needed help in the restroom changing his pants.

From Washington Times • Jan. 2, 2016

Incontinent he vanished, and she at once awoke her mother, in whose room she was sleeping, who was very angry and ridiculed the story, but the girl's earnestness at length impressed her.

From True Irish Ghost Stories by Seymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt)

Our gude gray meir was baittand on the feild, And our Land's laird tuik hir for his hyreild, The vickar tuik the best cow be the heid, Incontinent, quhen my father was deid.

From The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics by Fleming, David Hay

Incontinent and profligate?—See that your own fierceness has not taught them. 

From Sermons for the Times by Kingsley, Charles




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