uninterˈmitting, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
| 1661 Feltham Resolves, etc. 384 To procure an un-intermitting joy..is beyond a Solomon. 1709 Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. (1720) IV. 195 In answer to her unintermitting Reproaches. 1777 Robertson Hist. Amer. v. (1778) II. 117 All were ready to sink under the toils of unintermitting service. a 1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834) 4 The flashes of lightning were..unintermitting. 1890 Retrospect Med. CII. 368 The continuous roar..is..unintermitting. |
Hence uninterˈmittingness.
| 1866 Mrs. Ritchie Village on Cliff xiv, His talk was a wonder of ingenuity and unintermittingness. |