continuance

[ kuhn-tin-yoo-uhns ]
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noun
  1. an act or instance of continuing; continuation: a continuance of war.

  2. a remaining in the same place, condition, etc.

  1. Law. adjournment of a step in a proceeding to a future day.

Origin of continuance

1
1325–75; Middle English <Anglo-French; see continue, -ance

Other words for continuance

Other words from continuance

  • non·con·tin·u·ance, noun

Words Nearby continuance

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How to use continuance in a sentence

  • Indeed the grand end of the Church's continuance in the world, is aspired at by the efforts of all her true members.

  • But this did not prevent the continuance of hostilities in Brazil, and the other foreign possessions of Portugal.

  • Better that were changed, by the removal of the evil, than to remain imperfect because of the continuance thereof.

British Dictionary definitions for continuance

continuance

/ (kənˈtɪnjʊəns) /


noun
  1. the act or state of continuing

  2. the duration of an action, condition, etc

  1. US the postponement or adjournment of a legal proceeding

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