unremittent

[ uhn-ri-mit-nt ]

adjective

1. (especially of a fever) unremitting.

Other Words From

• unre·mittence unre·mitten·cy noun
• unre·mittent·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of unremittent¹

First recorded in 1870–75; un- ¹ + remittent

Example Sentences

The one is a compact, organized, single-minded body; the other is scattered, loosely put together, swayed to and fro by every change in the political atmosphere, and can offer no resistance that is sufficient to oppose the steady, unremittent attacks of its enemy.

From Project Gutenberg

For it was to her as though he compelled her to draw near and penetrate a region in which, gazing thitherward questioningly from afar, she had divined the residence of stern and intimate miseries, inalienable, unremittent, taking their rise in an almost alarming distance of time and fundamentally of cause.

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One of the most social and convivial of women, a thorough Tory, well known to Dryden, Creech, Otway and all the leading men of her day, warm helper and ally of every struggling writer, Astrea began to be completely overpowered by the continual strain, the unremittent tax upon both health and time.

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That guttural, scolding voice, unremittent as the hissing of a steam pipe, is Mrs. Rasnosky.

From Project Gutenberg

It was from beginning to end sane and reasonable and yet vigorous and unremittent.

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