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REMITTENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does remittent mean?
• REMITTENT (adjective)
The adjective REMITTENT has 1 sense:
1. (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity
Familiarity information: REMITTENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity
Context example:
a remittent fever
Similar:
decreased; reduced (made less in size or amount or degree)
Derivation:
remit (diminish or abate)
Context examples
I bethought myself to go upstairs and see how the dying woman sped, who lay there almost unheeded: the very servants paid her but a remittent attention: the hired nurse, being little looked after, would slip out of the room whenever she could.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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