Intermit vs Postpone - What's the difference?
intermit | postpone |
To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
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*: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 delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
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As verbs the difference between intermit and postpone
is that intermit is to interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend while postpone is to delay or put off an event, appointment etc.intermit
English
Verb
(intermitt)- Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.
Derived terms
* intermittence * intermittency * intermittentpostpone
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Verb
(postpon)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}