About The Word Continence
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Continence
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What's The Definition Of Continence?
[n] the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters
[n] voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge Synonyms | Synonyms for Continence: continency Related Terms | Find terms related to Continence: abnegation | abstainment | abstemiousness | abstention | abstinence | asceticism | avoidance | bachelordom | bachelorhood | bachelorism | bachelorship | banyan day | boundary | bounds | calm | calmness | celibacy | chasteness | chastity | confinement | conservatism | constraint | continency | control | cool | discipline | dispassion | Encratism | eschewal | evenness | fast | fish day | Friday | fruitarianism | gentleness | golden mean | gymnosophy | happy medium | impartiality | intactness | judiciousness | juste-milieu | lenity | Lenten fare | limit | limitation | maidenhead | maidenhood | meden agan | middle way | mildness | misogamy | misogyny | moderateness | moderation | moderationism | monachism | monasticism | nephalism | neutrality | nonviolence | nothing in excess | pacifism | plain living | Platonic love | prescription | proscription | prudence | purity | Pythagoreanism | Pythagorism | qualification | Rechabitism | refraining | refrainment | repose | restrain | restraint | restriction | self-abnegation | self-control | self-denial | self-restraint | serenity | sexual abstinence | Shakerism | simple diet | single blessedness | single state | singleness | sobriety | spare diet | Spartan fare | spinsterhood | stability | steadiness | Stoicism | teetotalism | temperance | temperateness | the pledge | total abstinence | tranquillity | unexcessiveness | unextravagance | unextremeness | unwed state | vegetarianism | via media | virgin state | virginity See Also | control | restraint | self-denial | self-discipline Continence In Webster's Dictionary \Con"ti*nence\, Continency \Con"ti*nen*cy\, n. [F.
continence, L. continentia. See {Continent}, and cf.
{Countenance}.]
1. Self-restraint; self-command.
He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave
off, -- a continence which is practiced by few
writers. --Dryden.
2. The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and
passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence
of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence;
sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence.
If they [the unmarried and widows] have not
continency, let them marry. --1 Cor. vii.
9 (Rev. Ver.
).
Chastity is either abstinence or continence:
abstinence is that of virgins or widows; continence,
that of married persons. --Jer. Taylor.
3. Uninterrupted course; continuity. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.
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