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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state or condition of being intermittent; intermitting character or quality: as, the intermittence of a fever, or of a spring.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The state of being sporadic or intermittent.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Act or state of intermitting; intermission.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping

Examples

  • “The future of film making is not to tired and fatigue viewers out unless you can pause and take a intermittence break similar to a long winded play!”

    James Cameron’s AVATAR Is Over 150 Minutes?! – Collider.com

  • “I remember he wound up with my health, proposed in a speech of small variety and considerable intermittence.”

    Simon & Schuster: The War of The Worlds

  • “This pattern, the constancy of the right and the intermittence of the left, is standard in American history, and applies to every”

    Jane Smiley: Is There Something Wrong with the System?

  • “Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants 'intermittence.”

    Newsweek: Missing the Market Meltdown

  • “I came across this paragraph, which particularly struck me:For I had a little room of my own, a little, little room, with a long low window and a window-ledge, where bright plants in pots, encouraged by the Western sun, withstood the intermittence of my attentions, and blossomed profusely.”

    Long Ago When I Was Young

  • “But Marilynne Robinson, whose last (and first) novel, "Housekeeping," appeared in 1981, seems to have the kind of sensibility that is sanguine about intermittence.”

    Archive 2004-12-01

  • “If such hybrid connexions be continued without intermittence, the female will soon go sterile; and for this reason trainers always allow of intervals between breeding times.”

    The History of Animals

  • “The sound of Michael Jackson in the other bar mingled with the mournful intermittence of the glass-cleaning machine in this one to create an aural ambience which perfectly matched the elderly paintwork in its dinginess.”

    The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • “Consequently Christian writers now emphasized the regularity of the super - natural decrees and at other times their intermittence.”

    NATURE

  • “Later on, when the fever dwindles to chronic intermittence, it will no longer be contagious.”

    The Planet Strappers

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