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remittent

remittent adjective: alternately increasing and decreasing in severity or intensity.

Adjective

remittent (comparative more remittent, superlative most remittent)

  1. Alternately increasing and decreasing in severity or intensity.
    • A remittent fever is when at certain periods the fever is more violent than at others, but the patient never intirely free from it.1761, Hugh Smith, The Family Physician, London, p. 3, footnote
    • Yet nine years elapsed before it [the dictionary] saw the light. His throes in bringing it forth had been severe and remittent, and at last we may almost conclude that the Caesarian operation was performed by the knife of Churchill, whose upbraiding satire, I dare say, made Johnson’s friends urge...1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, volume 1, London: Charles Dilly, page 176
  2. (rare) Of or pertaining to remission of the severity of symptoms.
    • […] the long, long fever of life, which with him never knew a remittent moment, had robbed him of that which every man has a right to expect, some pleasure in the course of his existence.1875, Charlotte Riddell, chapter 14, in The Uninhabited House

Noun

remittent (uncountable)

  1. A remittent fever.
    • If you would have died from fever, you would have died at Ujiji when you had that severe attack of remittent.1872, Henry Morton Stanley, chapter 15, in How I Found Livingstone, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, page 598

remittent meaning in Tamil

remittent in Tamil

தணிந்தோறும்

Forms of remittent

comparativemore remittent
superlativemost remittent

Origin of remittent

From Latin remittent-, present participle of remittō.

Words formed from remittent

Phrases with remittent

Questions about remittent

What does remittent mean?
Remittent means alternately increasing and decreasing in severity or intensity.
What is remittent in Tamil?
Remittent in Tamil is தணிந்தோறும். See Remittent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is remittent?
Remittent can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near remittent in the dictionary

  1. remitted
  2. remittee
  3. remittees
  4. remittence
  5. remittences
  6. remittent
  7. remittent fever
  8. remittent fevers
  9. remitter
  10. remitters
  11. remittest

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