Intermit vs Desist - What's the difference?
intermit | desist | 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
To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from .
* 1906 , , part I, ch I,
Intermit is a related term of desist.
As verbs the difference between intermit and desist
is that intermit is to interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend while desist is to cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from .intermit
English
Verb
(intermitt)- Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.
Derived terms
* intermittence * intermittency * intermittentdesist
English
Verb
(en verb)- One Ear was uttering quick, eager whines, lunging at the length of his stick toward the darkness, and desisting now and again in order to make frantic attacks on the stick with his teeth.