Intermit vs Abstain - What's the difference?
intermit | abstain | Related terms |
To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
*, vol. I, New York 2001, p.243:
*:Idlenessof body is nothing but a kind of of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”
* Shakespeare
(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) Keep or withhold oneself.
Refrain from (something); hold one's self aloof; to forbear or keep from doing, especially an indulgence of the passions or appetites.
* Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt? - Shakespeare, Richard II, II-i
(obsolete) Fast.
Deliberately refrain from casting one's vote at a meeting where one is present.
* Not a few abstained from voting. -
(obsolete) Hinder; keep back; withhold.
* Whether he abstain men from marying [sic]. -
Intermit is a related term of abstain.
As verbs the difference between intermit and abstain
is that intermit is to interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend while abstain is (transitive|reflexive|obsolete) keep or withhold oneself .intermit
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Verb
(intermitt)- Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.