Continence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTINENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• self-restraint, also CONTINENCY
• Alt. of Continency
• the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters
• voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge
• self-restraint (often in the context of desires, sexual appetite.
• the ability to control the functions of ones bladder.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• self-restraint; a refraining from sexual intercourse

Words related to CONTINENCE

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Words that contain CONTINENCE

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How to use CONTINENCE in a sentence

• But in the pursuit of the most heroic friendship, or the most sovereign passion, the youth discovers that a certain continence is necessary.
• Continence is that by which cupidity is kept down under the superior influence of wisdom.
• Moralists have perhaps not realized how much continence is due to a narrowness of aesthetic taste.
• Well, and a continence in regard to matters sexual so great that nothing of the sort shall prevent him from doing his duty? Which of them claims that? Ar.
• It implied marriage delayed until there was reasonable hope that the normal family, four in number, could be comfortably supported, continence in the mean time being assumed.
• His moral restraint was delayed marriage with continence.
• He saw in moral restraint only self-denial, constant continence, and entertained not a doubt, that the generative instinct would be cheated of its natural fruit.
• This continence they in some measure owe to their poverty.
• Their names are worthy of the fame of a good memorial, for they were shining lights of holy poverty, obedience, continence, and daily toil.
• Continence was one of the most sacred pretensions by which the organized preachers of superstition claimed the reverence of men and women.
• Continence differs from chastity in being entire restraint from sexual indulgence under all circumstances, while chastity is only restraint from unlawful indulgence.
• As we have both physical and mental chastity, so continence should be both mental and physical.
• The same relation also exists between mental and physical continence as between mental and physical chastity.
• We had the key to her troubles at once, and ordered entire continence for a month.
• He has only to practice the principles laid down for the maintenance of continence to entirely remove any such necessity should there be the slightest semblance of a real demand.
• Jesu most charitable, of the fasting the continence.
• When Jean de Novelompont and Bertrand de Poulengy describe their sudden continence, they employ identical forms of speech, affected and involved.
• They lived in continence and abstinence, and had establishments similar to the monasteries of the early Christians.
• Initiates required to be pure as indicated by fasting, continence, etc, 520-l.
• Purity of the Initiate indicated by fasting, continence, initiation, 520-l.
• There are few to appreciate an exquisite temperance, an exquisite virgin modesty, continence, and reserve, whether in thought or art.

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