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fitful (adj.)
used once by Shakespeare ("Macbeth," 1605) in sense of "characterized by fits," then revived by Scott (1810) with a sense of "shifting, changing." From
fit
(n.2) +
-ful
. Related:
Fitfully
;
fitfulness
.
