Adjective : an intermittent pain. From Dictionary.com.
Later on, when the fever dwindles to chronic intermittence, it will no longer be contagious. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
I remember he wound up with my health, proposed in a speech of small variety and considerable intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
He remarked, also, that the intermittence of the child's power seemed to depend in a measure on her state of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
This pattern, the constancy of the right and the intermittence of the left, is standard in American history, and applies to every. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Smiley: Is There Something Wrong with the System?] Reference
Consequently, it is chimerical to attempt to educate girls with boys, whose organization requires no such periodical intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
It seems as if the intermittence of his inspiration filled the poet with a wistful curiosity as to his nature in moments of soaring. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants 'intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [Missing the Market Meltdown] Reference
The source of the difficulty in the bituminous coal fields is the intermittence of operation which causes great waste of both capital and labor. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Lameness is usually the first manifestation of this disorder, and the thing which characterizes splint lameness is its peculiar intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
The future of film making is not to tired and fatigue viewers out unless you can pause and take a intermittence break similar to a long winded play!. From Wordnik.com. [James Cameron’s AVATAR Is Over 150 Minutes?! – Collider.com] Reference
Again, therefore, it may be said, that wherever such intermittence is not superfluous, it would be inadequate for the purpose for which it is designed. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
But Marilynne Robinson, whose last (and first) novel, "Housekeeping," appeared in 1981, seems to have the kind of sensibility that is sanguine about intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference
The most common cause of the intermittence of such a waterfall is the formation of a crevasse higher up, across the watercourse which supplied it, and which now begins another excavation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
For the reasons already detailed at length, we think that such supervision does not necessitate periodical intermittence of study, except in special cases, that constitute a decided minority among the whole. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
In the cases described by Dr. Clarke, the cure was effected, when at all, not by an intermittence of study, which does not seem to have been tried, but by its complete cessation, together with that of all the conditions by which it was accompanied. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
And hidden, like fruit, by the swift intermittence of leaves. From Wordnik.com. [A Bather] Reference
He can handle intermittence, but only when it's close at home. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News] Reference
Its belief is like a broken dream -- an intermittence of light and shade. From Wordnik.com. [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference
The occasional intermittence of these devices 'energy supply can be a drawback. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Global Home] Reference
This should give rise either to intermittence in the star's light or else to variability. From Wordnik.com. [History of Astronomy] Reference
It seems that we must rather admit an intermittence, an alteration between affirmation and negation. From Wordnik.com. [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference
Nor does the mere intermittence of water issuing from the bowels of the earth suffice to surprise one. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl's Ride in Iceland] Reference
I remember he wound up with my health proposed in a speech of small variety and considerable intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
The wagons moved as ships tossed on a stormy sea, chuck! chuck! from boulder to boulder, without intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales] Reference
For example, potential projects may consider the intermittence of wind energy production and the difficulties in storing electricity. From Wordnik.com. [Penn State Live] Reference
Indeed, she thought this was the cause of her evil, this alone could explain the tenacity of the disease, its mysterious intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [The Delight Makers] Reference
She suffered always, without any intermittence, as people do who have little imagination, with few but strong passions and a constant nature. From Wordnik.com. [Sant' Ilario] Reference
But large-scale electricity storage promises be an energy game-changer, unshackling alternative energy from the constraints of intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [On Line Opinion - Latest Articles] Reference
I recall then in this connexion no moment of subjective intermittence, never one of those alarms as for a suspected hollow beneath one's feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
Within the different chambers his soul sojourns as it will, since immeasurably beyond woman, he possesses the power of detachment, of intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rose and Silver] Reference
The index will help me sort through the topics that may interest me, but it won’t help me deal with intermittence or absence of quality. From Wordnik.com. [2005 March — Climb to the Stars] Reference
Mariam, or æAin Umm ed-Derej) because of its intermittent flow; or the pool of Siloe, which, being fed by the preceding, shares its intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Desire, he insists, adheres to intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision] Reference
The gunfire has an indolent intermittence. From Wordnik.com. [War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war] Reference
On the intermittence of geological formations. From Wordnik.com. [On the origin of species] Reference
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