continuance

Definition

The action of continuing.

Etymology

From Middle English continuance, contynuaunce, from Old French continuance, from continuer.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "In the living state, the body is observed to […] adopt most effectual measures for the permanent continuance of its species."
• "[…] the interview's continuance already had attracted observation from some topmen aloft and other sailors in the waist or further forward."