continuance
English
Alternative forms
- continuaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English continuance, contynuaunce, from Old French continuance, from continuer.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈtɪnjuəns/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈtɪnjʊəns/
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: con‧tin‧u‧ance
Noun
continuance (countable and uncountable, plural continuances)
- (uncountable) The action of continuing.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; 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 793557671, 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.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,
- […] the interview's continuance already had attracted observation from some topmen aloft and other sailors in the waist or further forward.
- 1961 September, “Background to the new winter timetables of the East Coast”, in Modern Railways, page 534:
- There is little to report of changes on the Great Eastern Line other than deceleration, doubtless explained by continuance of the electrification work.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; 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 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:
- (countable, law, chiefly US) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.
Synonyms
- (action of continuing): perdurance, remanence; see also Thesaurus:permanence
Antonyms
Translations
The action of continuing
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