intermit

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With the cold war's intermit tent crises no longer seeming so momentous, one eye of U.S. foreign policy has shifted to the long view.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though banished for a time from his seat in the States General by the Catholics, Revolutionists, and Rationalists, he did not intermit his labors to lead back the masses to evangelical piety.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)

Though often in feeble health, he seldom allowed physical languor to intermit his work.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)

Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague55 That needs must light on this ingratitude.

From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.

There was no answer and no intermit to the sobs and tears she was pouring on my letter.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend