continuance
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English continuance, contynuaunce, from Old French continuance, from continuer.
Pronunciation Nouncontinuance
- (uncountable) The action of continuing.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. [...], London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, OCLC ↗; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC ↗, page 406, lines 222–228 ↗:
- Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. [...], London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, OCLC ↗; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC ↗, page 406, lines 222–228 ↗:
- The period during which something continues or goes on; duration.
- (countable, legal, chiefly, US) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.
- (action of continuing) perdurance, remanence; see also Thesaurus:permanence
- French: continuation
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