intermit

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin intermittere, from inter- + mittere.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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  1. (transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
    • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, vol. I, New York 2001, p.243:
      Idleness […] of body is nothing but a kind of of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”
    • Shakespeare
      Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.

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