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1611.  Cotgr., Suyte,… a succession, continuance, or vnintermitted course of things.

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1651.  T. Stanley, Poems, Moschus, 48. The hoarse frogs unintermitted groan.

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1738.  Gentl. Mag., VIII. 581/2. His Application was unintermitted, his Head clear.

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1751.  Johnson, Rambler, No. 108, ¶ 1. Some scorched with unintermitted heat.

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1812.  Shelley, in Dowden, Life (1887), I. 218. My desire is ardent and unintermitted.

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1884.  Church, Bacon, ix. 220. Easy and unstudied as his writing seems, it was … the result of unintermitted trouble.

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  Hence Unintermittedly adv.

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a. 1693.  Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xvii. 140. A pair of Yarn Windles, which she nine times unintermittedly veered, and frisked about.

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1861.  Mill, Utilit., v. 81. Unless the machinery … is kept unintermittedly in active play.

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1863.  W. Phillips, Speeches, iii. 51. This heart of mine which beats so unintermittedly in the bosom.

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