intermit
verb (used with object)
to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
unintermitting
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a word derived from
intermit.
Example Sentences
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Whatever time I could steal from this unintermitting round, I employed in walks to the town, and in the neighbourhood.
From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Lt-Col. Pinkney
But as some men hate those whom they have injured, so others love those whom they have obliged; and his friendship continued warm and unintermitting for the subsequent twenty-six years of his life.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
Their tongues and their bodily movements were equally unintermitting.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Some days of unintermitting, drenching rain came; and on one of these days, the little fellow looked round him, after breakfast, and said, "Papa, I don't exactly see what I can do."
From Household Education by Harriet Martineau
Day and night the labour and the watch were unintermitting.
From The End of a Coil by Susan Warner
