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uninteˈrrupted, ppl. a. and adv.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not interrupted or broken in respect of continuity or sequence; unintermittent, continuous.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. xiii. lxxvi. 316 The euer mouing heauens vninterrupted rounde. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §5 The uninterrupted pleasures..of twenty-two years Peace. 1709Addison Tatler No. 192 ⁋6 An uninterrupted Friendship and Felicity. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxi. III. 195 The uninterrupted succession of senators. 1849Cobden Speeches 29 An interval of several years of uninterrupted peace. 1880McCarthy Our Times xl. III. 223 His career was one of uninterrupted success.
b. Not broken in surface; having no intervals between the parts.
1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 58 The cascade..falls..in one uninterrupted sheet. 1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 159 The margin [of the shell is]..uninterrupted and reflected. 1866Treas. Bot. 1191/2 Uninterrupted, consisting of regularly increasing or diminishing parts, or of parts all of the same size.
2. Not disturbed or broken into; not interrupted by something.
1657Cromwell Sp. in Somers Tracts (1811) VI. 367 A more free exercise, more uninterrupted by any hand of power. 1728Eliza Heywood tr. Mme. de Gomez's Belle A. (1732) II. 63 The rest of our Voyage was..uninterrupted by the least cross Accident whatever. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 202 Mr. Tyrold would not suffer this scene to be long uninterrupted. 1854Poultry Chron. II. 194/2 An uninterrupted day of rest. 1873B. Harte Fiddletown 7 The dwellings were..uninterrupted by shops.
3. adv. Without interruption; unhindered.
1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 3 That the Smacks and small Vessels may..fetch in Provisions and Naval Stores uninterrupted. |