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Unintermitted vs Unremitting - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between unintermitted and unremitting

is that unintermitted is not intermitted; uninterrupted, ceaseless while unremitting is incessant; never slackening.

unintermitted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (dated) Not intermitted; uninterrupted, ceaseless.
  • *1888 , , The Reverberator .
  • *:The only action taken by Mr. Dosson in consequence of his elder daughter's revelations was to embrace the idea as a subject of daily pleasantry. He was fond, in his intercourse with his children, of some small usual joke, some humorous refrain; and what could have been more in the line of true domestic sport than a little gentle but unintermitted raillery upon Francie's conquest?

    • unremitting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • incessant; never slackening
  • * 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
    • We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=4 citation , passage=These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.}}

    Derived terms

    * unremittingly

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