Both Uses of
intermittent
in
Middlemarch
- A tub and a clothes-horse at the other end of the kitchen indicated an intermittent wash of small things also going on.†
Chpt 3 *
- Considered as a demise, old Featherstone's death assumed a merely legal aspect, so that Mr. Vincy could tap his snuff-box over it and be jovial, without even an intermittent affectation of solemnity; and Mr. Vincy hated both solemnity and affectation.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(intermittent) stopping and starting -- especially at irregular intervals