| 单词 | continency |
| 释义 | continency (once / 67928 pages) n WORD FAMILY continent: continence, continency, continental, continently, continents, incontinent, subcontinent+/continental: continentally, intercontinental, transcontinental/incontinence: incontinences/incontinency: incontinencies/incontinent: incontinence, incontinency, incontinently/transcontinental: transcontinentally USAGE EXAMPLESImparting sanity and sweetness, it spares from decay, giving life with temperance and a continency that keeps our pleasures chaste and perennial. Alcott, Amos Bronson, Tablets(2011) They exalted, as Hegel said, the virtue of resignation, of continency, of obedience, above the great old Pagan virtues, which ought to distinguish a Teuton. Egan, Maurice Francis, Ten Years Near the German Frontier...(2011) He translates kalá by "continency," and describes it as "the power by which the senses are subdued and the carnal self brought into subjection." Acharya, Madhava, The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha—Review o...(2010) n the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters Syn|Hyper continence self-denial, self-discipline the trait of practicing self discipline |
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