continuednessn.
rare.
Continued state or quality, continuity.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [noun]
continuance1586
continuedness1594
continuity1603
uninterruptedness1665
uninterruption1702
continence1726
continuousness1803
continuancy1850
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
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits iii. 27 It behooues also that his parts holds a certaine kind of continuednesse, and that they be not diuided.
1630 T. Williamson in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxlvi. 4 See we now the continuednesse, exit, ‘it goeth forth’.
1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 120 All quantity whatever must..by continuednesse, conspire into one bulk.
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