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Intermission

Webster's Dictionary

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(1):

(n.) Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.

(2):

(n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.

(3):

(n.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.

(4):

(n.) Intervention; interposition.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Intermission'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​i/intermission.html. 1828.
 
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