Fit"ful (?), a. [From 7th Fit.]
Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well.
Shak.
-- Fit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fit"ful*ness, n.
The victorius trumpet peal
Dies fitfully away.
Macaulay.
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