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fitful

Shakespearean Definition:

Adjective - in terms of a disease, characterized by fits or bouts of it

Frequency: 1

Here are all of the speeches where fitful shows up across the corpus:

Macbeth


We have scorched the snake , not killed it .
She’ll close and be herself whilst our poor malice
Remains in danger of her former tooth .
But let the frame of things disjoint , both the worlds
suffer ,
Ere we will eat our meal in fear , and sleep
In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly . Better be with the dead ,
Whom we , to gain our peace , have sent to peace ,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy . Duncan is in his grave .
After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well .
Treason has done his worst ; nor steel nor poison ,
Malice domestic , foreign levy , nothing
Can touch him further .