incontinence
noun
the inability to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces.
incontinences
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pluralof incontinence.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We have no excuse whatever to make for these masculine incontinences; we abhor them as disgraceful and almost bestial.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
The ostensible England was making the empire sick with its incontinences, its ignorances, its ferocities, its panics, and its endless and intolerable blarings of Allied national anthems in season and out.
From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw
