Definition of "remittent" [re•mit•tent]

• Characterized by temporary abatement in severity. Used especially of diseases. (adjective)

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• "The evening of this day I was attacked with urticaria, or “nettle rash,” for the third time since arriving in Africa, and I suffered a woeful sickness; and it was the forerunner of an attack of remittent fever, which lasted four days."
• "Warundi; to the Arab slave-traders and half-castes; to all fevers, remittent, and intermittent; to the sloughs and swamps of Makata; to the brackish waters and howling wastes; to my own dusky friends and followers, and to the hero-traveller and Christian gentleman,"
• "If you would have died from fever, you would have died at Ujiji when you had that severe attack of remittent."