incontinent
adjective
unable to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces.
incontinency
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a word derived from
incontinent.
Example Sentences
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Nearly a thousand clergymen gathered in New York declared him a synonym of "incapacity and incontinency."
From The United States Since the Civil War by Charles Ramsdell Lingley
Your grace may se whate a worke there is in London, howe the bisshoppe rageth for endyting of certayn curates of extorcion and incontinency the last yere in the warmoll quest.
From A Supplication for the Beggars by Simon Fish
For the motion of the mind to any injustice, or incontinency, or to sorrow, or to fear, is nothing else but a separation from nature.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
What had he to do with gluttony, drunkenness, pride, wantonness, incontinency, and the rest of my ware?
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr
The works of the temperate spirit and the works of incontinency are, I take it, diametrically opposed?
From The Memorabilia by Henry Graham Dakyns
