Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not intermitting; not ceasing for a time; continuing.
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- adjective archaic Not
intermitting :constant ,unceasing ,unremitting , withoutinterruption .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His ideas succeeded each other with the gentle but unintermitting flow of a plentiful and bounteous spring; while I have heard those of others, who aimed at distinction in conversation, rush along like the turbid gush from the sluice of a mill-pond, as hurried, and as easily exhausted.
Rob Roy 2005
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His doubts might have been indeed pardoned; for, except perhaps the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who were the object of such an unintermitting, general, and relentless persecution as the Jews of this period.
Ivanhoe 2004
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An unintermitting violent shower of rain has driven me into the cabin, where I am now endeavouring to divert a gloomy hour by giving you the description of a pleasing one.
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This opinion was plausible; and the unintermitting nature of the suffering disposes me to think that it was true, for if it had been any mere IRREGULAR affection of the stomach, it should naturally have intermitted occasionally, and constantly fluctuated as to degree.
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The torment was secret and incessant, and kept my mind in unintermitting activity.
Uncle Silas 2003
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At length, by his unintermitting labour and perseverance in the path he had marked out for himself, he began to win the approbation of those who honoured his self-taught talent.
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I could only compare them to the loud rattle of along train of chariots driven at full speed over the stones, or a roar of unintermitting thunder.
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And where would have been those her so strong and unceasing prayers, unintermitting to Thee alone?
The Confessions 1999
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At length, by his unintermitting labour and perseverance in the path he had marked out for himself, he began to win the approbation of those who honoured his self-taught talent.
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Whatever time I could steal from this unintermitting round, I employed in walks to the town, and in the neighbourhood.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney
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