unintermittedly love

unintermittedly

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without being intermitted; uninterruptedly.

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  • adverb Without interruption

Etymologies

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unintermitted +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • After this she took a pair of yarn windles, which she nine times unintermittedly veered and frisked about; then at the ninth revolution or turn, without touching them any more, maturely perpending the manner of their motion, she very demurely waited on their repose and cessation from any further stirring.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • After this she took a pair of yarn windles, which she nine times unintermittedly veered and frisked about; then at the ninth revolution or turn, without touching them any more, maturely perpending the manner of their motion, she very demurely waited on their repose and cessation from any further stirring.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Now this most indispensable of all necessaries, after physical nutriment, cannot be had, unless the machinery for providing it is kept unintermittedly in active play.

    Utilitarianism 1901

  • Now this most indispensable of all necessaries, after physical nutriment, cannot be had, unless the machinery for providing it is kept unintermittedly in active play.

    Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 1839

  • The initiated of course enjoyed a beatitude infinitely greater than that which falls to the lot of ordinary mortals, being conscious of a perpetual commerce with these wonderful beings from whose society the vulgar are debarred, and having such associates unintermittedly anxious to perform their behests, and anticipate their desires.

    Lives of the Necromancers William Godwin 1796

  • After this she took a pair of yarn windles, which she nine times unintermittedly veered and frisked about; then at the ninth revolution or turn, without touching them any more, maturely perpending the manner of their motion, she very demurely waited on their repose and cessation from any further stirring.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

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