continuate
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- continuately adverb
- continuateness noun
Etymology
Origin of continuate
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin continuātus, past participle of continuāre to continue; -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Per le continuate premure ed insistenze di questo egregio uffiziale postale Signor Rocca Francesco—che nulla lascia pel bene avviamento del nostro uffizio—presso 1' on.
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman
A most incomparable man; breathed as it were To an untirable and continuate goodness: He passes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various
A most incomparable man; breath'd, as it were, To an untirable and continuate goodness.
From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William
Pardon me, Bianca: I haue this while with leaden thoughts beene prest, But I shall in a more continuate time Strike off this score of absence.
From Othello by Shakespeare, William
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