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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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
Did you ever have an obstinate cold, a six or seven weeks' unintermitting chill and suspension of hope, fear, conscience, and everything?
From The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Sherwin Cody
IT is a little sharp to-day; but bright and sunny with a sparkle in the air, which is delightful after four days of unintermitting rain.
From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson
Here they halted, as they had no means of effecting a passage, smarting all the while under unintermitting volleys from the enemy, who were clustered thick on the waters around this second opening.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
The attentions of Eugene St. Eval to Miss Hamilton continued as unintermitting as they were respectful the whole of that night; and Caroline, if she did not encourage, certainly forbade them not.
From The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar
