intervary

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English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ vary.

Verb

intervary (third-person singular simple present intervaries, present participle intervarying, simple past and past participle intervaried)

  1. (obsolete) To alter or vary between; to change between.
    • 1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice:
      we may regard half the words of language as emphatic : since they are perpetually inter-varying by slight differences in force , and quantity
    • 1998, Alan A. Jones, Towards a lexicogrammar of Mekeo: an Austronesian language of West Central Papua:
      The /w/ in NWMek represents a weak variety of pronounced with spread lips, freely intervarying with a true vowel .

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