intermitted

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There, however, not only the intercourse with the idols, but the connection with Jehovah also, appears to be intermitted.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

For the same reason the wailing is again intermitted while the grave is being dug.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

The rain, which had never intermitted, fell with dismal hopelessness.

From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.

To the Honourable Knight Sir G. P. SIR, I Would have intermitted this week without writing, if I had not found the name of my Lady Huntington in your Letter.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John

One, two, three—the hearers counted the drum beats, time and again, in their intermitted booming, to twenty-four.

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin