Intermit vs Refrain - What's the difference?
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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
(archaic) To hold back, to restrain (someone or something).
* Proverbs i:15 .
(reflexive, archaic) To show restraint; to hold oneself back.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts V:
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* Bible, Proverbs i. 15
To stop oneself (from) some action or interference; to abstain.
* Bible, Acts v. 38
* Sir Thomas Browne
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The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza.
A much repeated comment, complaint, or saying.
Intermit is a related term of refrain.
As a verb intermit
is to interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.As a noun refrain is
.intermit
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Verb
(intermitt)- Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.
Derived terms
* intermittence * intermittency * intermittentrefrain
English
Etymology 1
From a combination of (etyl) refraindre, (etyl) refreindre (from (etyl) refrangere), and (etyl) refrener, (etyl) refrener (from (etyl) refrenare).Verb
(en verb)- Refrain thy foot from their path.
- And nowe I saye unto you: refrayne youreselves from these men, and let them alone [...].
- his reson aperceyueth it wel that it is synne / agayns the lawe of god / and yet his reson / refreyneth nat his foul delit or talent.
- Refrain thy foot from their path.
- Refrain from these men, and let them alone.
- They refrained therefrom [eating flesh] some time after.
- Who, requiring a remedy for his gout, received no other counsel than to refrain cold drink.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) refrain, from the (etyl) verb . See refract and the verb refrain.Noun
(wikipedia refrain) (en noun)- We hear the wild refrain . Whittier.