intermittingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From intermitting + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]intermittingly (not comparable)
- With intermissions; at intervals.
- 1821 September–October, [Thomas De Quincey], “(please specify the page)”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 2nd edition, London: […] [J. Moyes] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1823, →OCLC:
- Mine, which intermittingly raged for ten years, was rheumatism in the face combined with toothache
References
[edit]- “intermittingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.