Continuance is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTINUANCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of continuing, remaining in the same place, action, etc.
• the time for which a situation or action lasts
• the state of remaining in a particular position or condition
• the state of remaining in existence or operation
• a postponement or an adjournment
• A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.
• Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation.
• A holding together; continuity.
• The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.
• The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.
• the act of continuing an activity without interruption
• the period of time during which something continues
• the property of enduring or continuing in time
• the state of continuing, remaining in the same place, action, etc
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• continuation

Words related to CONTINUANCE

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Words that contain CONTINUANCE

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How to use CONTINUANCE in a sentence

• They worship every thing they either love or fear, in order to procure the continuance of favours enjoyed, or to avert that resentment they may have reason to dread.
• It was speedily announced that the Germans intended to regard the whole of Belgium as a German province and to administer it as such, at least during the continuance of the war.
• For as this contrast had produced during its continuance, so it left, when it was over, a general enthusiasm for liberty.
• Let those who talked of allowing three or four years to the continuance of it, reflect on the disgraceful scenes which had passed last year.
• The fear of doing injury to the property of others, had hitherto prevented him from giving an opinion against a system, the continuance of which he could not countenance.
• But he felt that the case, in its present aspect, needed farther investigation, and he moved for a continuance of the cause for two days.
• It is our duty to provide for its continuance in well-being and honor.
• So that it is not the failure of elementary education we have really to consider, but the continuance and extension of its already almost miraculous results.
• I got a continuance, and we choked it off in the same way at the succeeding term.
• A guerrillade on an extensive scale and of long continuance is possible only while it is supported by the presence of large and successful regular armies.
• The Loss of the Captain was an Addition to our Misfortune, which together with the violent Continuance of the Storm, took away all Hopes of Safety.
• During the continuance of such a series the rhythm form changes frequently in the apprehension of the individual subject from one to another of the types described above.
• The condition of the servants had greatly improved, and their labor was not so hard nor of such continuance as that of farmers and mechanics in England.
• In confidence of a continuance of this practice, the merchants of both countries were carrying on their commerce of exchange.
• For the return, a continuance of the salary for three months after fulfilment of the commission.
• I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.
• The particulars of it in the future, or the degrees of its continuance, we think, are concealed from the present knowledge of man.
• They have some fanciful notions upon the continuance of life, when once bestowed, even in the vegetable world, as the reader will see in the next chapter.
• But alas, is there any thing in human Life, the Duration of which can be called long? There is nothing which must end to be valued for its Continuance.
• This Small-State plan, so called, provided for a continuance of the government under the Articles of Confederation.
• XXIV OF CONTINUANCE I was walking with Father Payne in the garden one day of spring.
• You see, yourself, that my duty to the school will require me to adopt the most decided measures to prevent the continuance and the spread of such a practice.
• The Africans themselves had no objection to its continuance.
• It, too, has the saving grace of continuance exhibited by the grey wolf.
• Cecilia lay long in a fever, and during its continuance, her love for him who had saved her life increased.
• Jago in their favour, he being the saint to whom they had last appealed during the continuance of the tempest.
• Being, perhaps, the most easy of any, every one takes part in it, and the room is generally crowded during its continuance.
• Its appearance, far from constituting its own remedy, is like all other organic phenomena subject to the law of inertia and tends only to its own continuance.
• The appointment was made for ten months, with a view of continuance if the work proved fruitful.

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