Hypertext Webster Gateway: "continuance"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Continuance \Con*tin"u*ance\, n. [OF. continuance.]
1. A holding on, or remaining in a particular state;
permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.;
perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.

Great plagues, and of long continuance. --Deut.
xxviii. 59.

Patient continuance in well-doing. --Rom. ii. 7.

2. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal;
perpetuation; propagation.

The brute immediately regards his own preservation
or the continuance of his species. --Addison.

3. A holding together; continuity. [Obs.] --Bacon.

4. (Law)
(a) The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one
day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.
(b) The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof
on the record.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

continuance
n 1: the act of continuing or resuming an activity [syn: {continuation}]
[ant: {discontinuance}, {discontinuance}]
2: the period of time during which something continues [syn: {duration}]
3: the property of enduring or continuing in time [syn: {duration}]


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