unremittent
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- unremittence noun
- unremittency noun
- unremittently adverb
Etymology
Origin of unremittent
Example Sentences
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For it was to her as though he compelled her to draw near and penetrate a region in which, gazing thitherward questioningly from afar, she had divined the residence of stern and intimate miseries, inalienable, unremittent, taking their rise in an almost alarming distance of time and fundamentally of cause.
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One of the most social and convivial of women, a thorough Tory, well known to Dryden, Creech, Otway and all the leading men of her day, warm helper and ally of every struggling writer, Astrea began to be completely overpowered by the continual strain, the unremittent tax upon both health and time.
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That guttural, scolding voice, unremittent as the hissing of a steam pipe, is Mrs. Rasnosky.
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It was from beginning to end sane and reasonable and yet vigorous and unremittent.
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It is hard work to knit again a shattered line under the unremittent assault of hardened veterans, such as Nelson's Mediterranean ships.
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