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noun

Intermission n.

The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.

Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. "Rest or intermission none I find."

Specifically: The short period between acts of a play, concert, opera, or other public performance when the audience may leave their seats for refreshment; it usually lasts from 10 to 20 minutes.

(Med.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.

Intervention; interposition. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Cessation; interruption; interval; pause; stop; rest; suspension. See Cessation.

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"Intermission" Quotes from Famous Books

... once to start, and the lads, wringing the hand of the black who had been so kind to them, at once followed their guide into the darkness. For some hours they walked without intermission, sometimes going at a sling trot, and then easing down again. Dark as was the night, their guide trod the paths without hesitation or pause. The boys could scarce see the ground upon which they trod, but the eyes of the native were keener than theirs, and to him the ...

— Under Drake's Flag - A Tale of the Spanish Main • G. A. Henty

... attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day. Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone long before it rained hard. Her sisters were uneasy for her, but her mother was delighted. The rain continued the whole evening without intermission; Jane certainly could not ...

— Persuasion • Jane Austen

... hold out with him, invited some to take their morning's draught, others to dinner, to supper others, and others after, to take a merry glass of wine; so that as the first went off, the second came, and the third and fourth company and he all the while without any intermission took his glass round, and outsat all ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

... with housework, talking to herself without intermission as she worked. And David spent long hours in his study, poring over enormous books that Carol insisted made her head ache from the outside and would probably give her infantile paralysis if she dared to peep between the covers. Afternoons were the aid societies, ...

— Sunny Slopes • Ethel Hueston

... him our meridian, a trial of sailing commenced, which continued without intermission for three entire days. During this time, we had the wind from all quarters, and of every degree of force, from the lightest air to a double-reefed-topsail breeze. We were never a mile separated, and frequently ...

— Recollections of Europe • J. Fenimore Cooper

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