The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance. B. Jonson.
Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. Rest or intermission none I find. Milton.
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.
Intervention; interposition. [Obs.] Heylin.
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