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unintermittently

unintermittently adverb: not intermittently; in an unintermittent manner.

Adverb

unintermittently (not comparable)

  1. Not intermittently; in an unintermittent manner.
    • For fifteen centuries before the last, it was erroneously supposed that all maladies lay in the humours of the body; and hence blood-letting was practised periodically to prevent disease, and almost unintermittently to cure it, though such treatment could only be right in a few out of many cases.1834 January 4, “Is Ignorance Bliss?”, in William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, volume II, number 101, page 386, column 2
    • I was once in the Grand Hôtel during the usual “exceptional season,” when it rained unintermittently for a fortnight; the place was empty; “tristeful,” as Adolf styled it.1892 September 3, “Inns and Outs. No. II.—The Head-Wetter.”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CIII, London: […] [T]he Office, […], page 105, column 2

Examples of unintermittently in a sentence

  • It retains only those miracles which are symbols of a continuous permanent miracle, through which the Saviour of the World works constantly, unintermittently, among men.1910, Albert Schweitzer, “The Lives of Jesus of the Earlier Rationalism”, in W[illiam] Montgomery, transl., The Quest of the Historical...
  • A steady rain poured down unintermittently from the time I left my hotel in downtown Toronto until I returned dripping into the lobby and removed my soaking hat.2001 July 22, Rhoda Amon, “Toronto: ‘New York, as Run by the Swiss’”, in Newsday, volume 61, number 322, page E13, column 1:

Questions about unintermittently

What does unintermittently mean?
Unintermittently means not intermittently; in an unintermittent manner.
How do you use unintermittently in a sentence?
It retains only those miracles which are symbols of a continuous permanent miracle, through which the Saviour of the World works constantly, unintermittently, among men.
What part of speech is unintermittently?
Unintermittently is an adverb.

Words near unintermittently in the dictionary

  1. unintermissive
  2. unintermitted
  3. unintermittedly
  4. unintermittedness
  5. unintermittent
  6. unintermittently
  7. unintermitting
  8. unintermittingly
  9. unintermittingness
  10. unintermixed
  11. uninternalised

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