continuancen.
/kənˈtɪnjuːəns/ I. The action of continue v. transitive.
1. † b. Retention in some position or state. Obsolete.
a. Keeping up, going on with, maintaining, or prolonging (an action, process, state, etc.).
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the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > lengthening in duration or prolonging
continuancec1374
prorogationc1400
prolongation?a1425
training1440
lengthingc1480
enlonging1509
prolonging1528
protraction1535
protract of time1536
productionc1540
trait1545
lengthening1574
continuation1587
prolongment1593
conserving1610
extensiona1631
wire-drawing1640
continuing1643
spinning1644
permansion1646
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 28 Of your lordship eke Continuance I wolde yow byseke.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. (MS. A) 103 Wiþ contynuaunce [v.r. contynewaunce] of þe same cure tofore seid.
1559 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1725) I. App. viii. 20 Howe the same from tyme to tyme were enlarged, and had their continuance.
1686 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 495 Imploring the continuance of Gods Mercy, & providential care for the yeare now entred.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 120. ¶13 His own Preservation, or the Continuance of his Species.
1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iv. ii. 251 A prorogation..is the continuance of a parliament from one session to another.
1874 J. Morley On Compromise 58 The continuance of the unending task of human improvement.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun]
maintenancec1390
sustentation1425
keepingc1430
conservationc1447
sustenation1496
maintainment?c1500
intertenure1537
containing1567
sustainment1568
maintain1599
manutention1603
manutenency?1630
continuance1691
conservancy1884
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 90 An Unaccountable Continuance of the sheathing upon the Bodies of these Ships, beyond what the Practice..of the Navy..can justifie.
2. Law. The adjournment or deferring of a suit or trial (or sometimes other proceedings) till a future date or for a period. (Sometimes the present cessation, sometimes the virtual continuity, is the prominent notion.) Cf. continue v. 8.‘In the United States, the deferring of a trial or suit from one stated term of the court to another.’ Webster (1828). In England now Obsolete in civil processes.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [noun] > adjournment of proceeding(s)
continuance1425
remanentcy1791
continuation1861
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit > interruption or postponement of suit
continuance1425
discontinuance1489
miscontinuance1607
1425 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 4 John..hath cesed of his sute..takyng continuance of þe same matier vn-to Cristemasse next comyng.
a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) vi. 353 Sir Robert Melvil..requested for some eight days continuance of the Execution; whereunto she answered, Not an hour.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 80 Continuance in the Common Law is of the same signification with Prorogatio in the Civile Law: As continuance untill the next Assise.
1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent v. 64 Continuances are entered for two years more.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 316 The giving of this day is called the continuance, because thereby the proceedings are continued without interruption from one adjournment to another.
1880 Daily Tel. 26 Nov. A mandamus directing the justices to enter continuances, and hear an appeal brought by the applicants.
II. The action of continue v. intransitive.† 6. The quality of lasting or enduring; permanence, durability. Obsolete.† 7. The quality or fact of having lasted a long time; long standing, antiquity. Obsolete.† 8. † b. Succession; sequence. Obsolete. rare.
3.
a. Continuing in, or going on with, an action or course of conduct; perseverance, persistence. (Said of agents.) archaic.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > [noun] > specifically of an agent
continuancec1405
the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [noun]
beleaving1340
continuationc1374
improbityc1380
perseveringc1380
perseverancec1384
continuancec1405
perseverationa1500
patience1517
constancea1533
importunity1533
persistence1546
persisting1576
going-on1578
persistency1600
constancy1623
stickle1652
rubbing shift1675
doggedness1824
stick-to-itiveness1859
persistiveness1864
holdfastness1869
continuativeness1881
stick-to-itness1881
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant/Squire Link (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 8 God..in vertu sende thee continuaunce.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. xlvi. 197 Þis awgere..þat bi his good continuaunce maketh þe heuene an hygh to perce.
1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes v. f. xxvii With pacience and continuaunce kepyng our promise.
1611 Bible (King James) Rom. ii. 7 By patient continuance in well doing. View more context for this quotation
1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 457 The want of earnestness, of intense continuance, is fatal to him.
b. The going on (of an action or process), the duration or lasting (of a condition or state). The most usual current sense.
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the world > time > duration > [noun]
lengtha1240
date?1316
durationc1384
hautesse1399
quantity?a1425
periodc1475
tracta1513
allowance1526
continuance1530
wideness1535
continue1556
protense1590
countenance1592
stay1595
standing1600
dimension1605
longanimity1607
longinquity1607
insisture1609
existence1615
unprivationa1628
continuity1646
protension1654
measure1658
course1665
contention1666
propagation1741
protensity1886
the world > action or operation > continuing > [noun]
continuationc1374
residence?c1450
continuance1530
countenance1592
pursuance1601
continualness1611
ongoing1637
continuando1672
continuing1691
continuality1805
ongoingness1932
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 382 All suche dedes as..had contynuaunce after the same present tyme.
1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 12 §1 All Lycences being made and granted as ys abovesaid..shall have Continuance and bee good onely for one Yere.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus ii. 13 Blessednesse in greatest measure, and endles continuance.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxix. 170 Though they be grieved with the continuance of disorder.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 43 Any Voyage not exceeding five or six years continuance.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 38. ⁋11 Burnt up by a long continuance of drought.
1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. i. vii. 78 The sole cause of the continuance of the quarrel.
c. adjectival phrase of long continuance ( of short continuance, of some continuance, of any continuance, etc.) continuance.
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1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 296 Their amitie and vnion..cannot be of long continuance.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. iv. 1 We shall first dispatch those which were of shortest continuance.
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 77 This Year (1719) we had no Frost or Snow of any Continuance in England.
1784 W. Cowper Let. 22 Feb. (1981) II. 214 A frost of nine weeks' continuance.
1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 218 The strain is of short continuance.
1893 N.E.D. at Continuance Mod. Is the rain likely to be of any continuance?
4. The action or fact of continuing or remaining (in some place, position, state, or condition); stay. (Said of persons or things.)
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [noun] > continuance, duration
arrestc1386
continuance1393
tenor1398
lasta1400
lastinga1400
abiding?a1425
demur1533
remanence1558
subsistence1600
continualness1611
incessancy?1615
continuancy1621
uncessantness1627
mansion1637
subsistency1642
remanency1647
unintermissiveness1651
indesinency1657
continuation1664
unintermission1681
incessantness1727
unceasingness1727
unintermittingness1866
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 303 Men sain, that frele is youth With leiser and continuaunce.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxiv. 229 Thurgh continuaunce and haboundaunce of waters.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 38 §2 After long continuances togither in matrimonye.
1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyage rounde Worlde in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 219v The most part of them..haue no houses of continuaunce but..cary them from place to place.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 106 Cloy'd With long continuance in a setled place. View more context for this quotation
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §33. 321 The..Continuance above the Horizon of any Star.
1746 J. Wesley Princ. Methodist farther Explain'd 18 Our Continuance in a State of Justification.
1835 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 20 Our continuance in London has..become more uncertain.
1874 Act 37 & 38 Vict. c. 7 §2 The Assistant Judge, during his continuance in office.
5. Duration or lapse of time, course of time (obsolete); period, length of time (obsolete or archaic). in continuance: in course of time.
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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time
tidea900
while971
fristOE
stemOE
throwOE
timeOE
selea1250
piecec1300
termc1300
stagea1325
whilesc1330
space?a1400
racec1400
spacec1405
termine1420
parodya1425
timea1425
continuancec1440
thrallc1450
espace1483
space of timec1500
tracta1513
stead1596
reach1654
amidst1664
stretch1698
spell1728
track1835
lifetime1875
time slice1938
the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time
process1357
concoursec1400
coursec1460
successionc1485
passing-by1523
by-passing1526
slacka1533
continuancea1552
race1565
prolapse1585
current1587
decurse1593
passage1596
drifting1610
flux1612
effluxion1621
transcursion1622
decursion1629
devolution1629
progression1646
efflux1647
preterition1647
processus1648
decurrence1659
progress1664
fluxation1710
elapsing1720
currency1726
lapse1758
elapse1793
time-lapse1864
wearing1876
the world > time > [adverb] > in course of time or as time goes on
on (also upon) hand (also hands)c1200
in (also by) (the) process of time1357
by (also in) process?1523
in success of time1546
in continuancea1552
in length of time1697
c1440 York Myst. xxvi. 102 He coueres all þat comes..But in a schort contynuaunce.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 70 A very neere Kinswoman of the Kinges fell in love with him, and in continuance was wedded unto him.
1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon sig. **3 The sea exhaled by droppes will in continuance be drie.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cxxxix. 16 All my members..which in continuance were fashioned.
a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. ii. 13 The strongest and most sumptuous Palaces decay with continuance.
1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. vi. 60 Ideas..don't remain so for any sensible Continuance.
1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams II. xiv. 284 Speed I was nearly unable to exert for any continuance.
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the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time
lenghc888
longnessOE
enduringc1374
length1388
continuing1398
long lasting?c1400
perdurability?a1425
perseverance?a1425
permanence1440
perdurablenessc1450
perdurationc1450
continuation1469
diuturnity?a1475
prolixityc1500
endurancea1513
sustention1515
continuance1552
long standinga1568
longitude1596
long-lastingness1598
sempiternity1599
consistence1606
persistence1621
long-livedness1652
abidingness1654
productedness1664
imperdibility1713
longiturnity1727
endurableness1795
lengthiness1829
endurability1837
perenniality1841
longevity1842
protractedness1855
enduringnessa1867
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Continuaunce, continuatio, perennitas.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iv. 6 You call in question the continuance of his loue. View more context for this quotation
a1652 I. Jones Most Notable Antiq. called Stone-Heng (1655) 12 They raise cabbins and cottages..of no great continuance.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 57 in Sylva Fruits..are to be as well considered in relation to their lasting and continuance, as to their maturity and beauty.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun]
oldnessOE
antiquity?c1450
agednessa1475
ancienty1524
continuance1528
ancientness1537
anciency1549
hoariness1580
primitiveness1644
antiquary1655
vetustness1727
primitivity1759
vetusty1870
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. b iiijv Goddis worde..slewe the masse downe right Of so auncient continuaunce.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 82 Hauing..brought into a house of no great continuance the honor of hauing an Emperor.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 37 They were accounted the more sacred, by how much they were of more continuance.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 363 The Aristocracy was of some Continuance.
a. Continuity, connection (literal and figurative). Obsolete.
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > spreading out > an expanse of something
spacea1382
widenessa1382
continuance1398
field1547
sheet1593
universe1598
main1609
reach1610
expansion1611
extent1627
champaign1656
fetch1662
mass1662
expanse1667
spread1712
run1719
width1733
acre1759
sweep1767
contiguity1785
extension1786
stretch1829
breadths1839
outspread1847
outstretch1858
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > uninterrupted connection of parts
continuance1398
continuity1543
continuedness1594
continuation1615
continuateness1644
continuousness1849
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [noun]
continuance1586
continuedness1594
continuity1603
uninterruptedness1665
uninterruption1702
continence1726
continuousness1803
continuancy1850
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xxi. 454 Though it be al one see in contynuaunce therof, yet by costes and countrees he takith dyuerse names.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. A4v That continuance of matter ought not to be vsed in a letter.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Cc2v Without a perfect continuance, or contexture of the threed of the Narration. View more context for this quotation
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §25. 112 The winding surface, the unbroken continuance, the easy gradation of the beautiful.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > a series or succession > of actions, conditions, or events
gradation1549
continuance1605
series1618
chain1696
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Cc2v Commentaries..set downe a continuance of the naked euents & actions, without the motiues or designes. View more context for this quotation
9. concrete. = continuation n. 9 ? Obsolete.
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the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > lengthening in duration or prolonging > a continuation
pursuita1393
remanenta1500
continuance1552
continuation1580
prosecutiona1641
rolling1800
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > sequel or prequel
sequela1513
continuance1552
continuation1580
suite1839
sequelula1912
prequel1958
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Continuaunce or tenoure of a matter, tenor.
1587 F. Thynne Ann. Scotl. Pref. 405 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II In this my continuance of the Annales of Scotland.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xxiii. 272 Beholding them [sc. children], as the continuance, not only of their kind, but of their worke.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 761 To spend the continuance of their liues.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. vii. 435 This romance, and a continuance of it by Gil Polo.
1879 A. Trollope Thackeray i This novel [‘The Virginians’]..is a continuance of ‘Esmond’.
10. Used for continence n.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [noun] > abstinence
abstinence?c1225
continencec1340
abstaining1395
continency1567
continuancea1625
non-ism1990
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta i. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iiiii4v/2 Zanthia doth enamour me Beyond all continuance.
Compounds
continuance act n. a legislative act continuing for a further period a temporary measure.
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society > law > types of laws > [noun] > legal or administrative
Ragmanc1400
Statute of Sewers1571
Poynings' Act1613
Poynings' Law1622
Statute of Limitations1641
Act (or Bill) of Indemnity1647
new tables1664
Habeas Corpus Act1705
Judicature Act1782
continuance act1863
stay-law1880
ripper1885
reception statute1931
thirty-year rule1966
sunshine law1968
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. iv. 21 Many statutes of temporary operation are kept in force from time to time by Continuance Acts.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > payment for renewal of loan
continuance-money1678
1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Of Happy Life xii. 154 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) Procuration, and Continuance-Money, these are only..the Dreams of Avarice.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iii. 29 A Hunger-starv'd Usurer in quest of a Crasie Citizen for Use and Continuance-Money.
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