intermit
verb (used with object)
to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
unintermitting
-
a word derived from
intermit.
Example Sentences
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For five days we continued to drift to the northwest, in no danger of starvation, owing to our lading of provisions, but constrained to unintermitting watch and ward by the roughness of the weather.
From To Whom This May Come 1898 by Edward Bellamy
Did you ever have an obstinate cold,—a six or seven weeks' unintermitting chill and suspension of hope, fear, conscience, and every thing?
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by H. Wragg
Her children bound her to earth, and for our sakes she toiled on with unswerving devotion and unintermitting care.
From The Authoritative Life of General William Booth by George S. (George Scott) Railton
When you come to Edinburgh, I'll settle an unintermitting correspondence with you.
From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
They had met, and in vows of secrecy had often pledged unintermitting attachment.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
