incontinent

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From Middle English incontinent, from Old French incontinent, from Latin incontinens, from in + continens.

It was so now; but the more part melted away incontinent until but three were left. — Catriona, Robert Louis Stevenson
She came to him incontinent and no sooner did she enter than the beating of the youth's pulse returned and she being gone again, ceased. — The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio
He also asserted that the virtues did not reciprocally follow one another, for that it was possible for a prudent, and just, and impartial man, to be incontinent and intemperate; and he said, that the wise man was not destitute of passions, but endowed with moderate passions. — The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius

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