continual
/kənˈtɪnjuəl/ adjective B1- Recurring in steady, rapid succession. · the continual noise of dogs' barking
- Seemingly continuous; appearing to have no end or interruption.
- Forming a continuous series.
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I should have thought the continual failures you have met with in all your own love affairs might have taught you better by this time.”
She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.
‘On the 23rd you incommoded me; by the middle of February I was seriously inconvenienced by you; at the end of March I was absolutely hampered in my plans; and now, at the close of April, I find myself placed in such a position through your continual persecution that I am in positive danger of losing my liberty.
she can have no idea of the pain she gives me by her continual reflections on him.
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