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Meanings of continuance in English

Portuguese
continuação
Catalan
continuació
Spanish
continuación

The act of continuing an activity without interruption.

      continuação
      Portuguese
      continuidade
      Catalan
      permanència
      Spanish
      permanencia

      The property of enduring or continuing in time.

            continuidade
            Usage of continuance in English
            1
            As to the actual continuance of polygamous marriages, the evidence was contradictory.
            The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Y...
            2
            The party demand for his continuance in the leadership was virtually unanimous.
            Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics
            3
            The British sent up troops and forbade the continuance of the work.
            Modern India
            4
            But the process of loving generates these means to its own continuance.
            Eyeless in Gaza
            5
            It is continuance in the word that brings the blessing, mark that.
            The Right Knock / A Story
            6
            Under that idea, I hold myself obliged to the continuance of it.
            Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third / From th...
            7
            And this arrangement was held to during the continuance of the work.
            The Lighthouse
            8
            What a supreme act of faith the continuance of the race is.
            The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
            9
            The success of this project depended on the continuance of their sleep.
            Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
            10
            No continuance of the battery current caused any deflection of the galvanometer-needle.
            Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
            11
            Another desire is intended to secure the continuance of the human race.
            When the Holy Ghost is Come
            12
            Their long continuance shows the intensity of the sentiments which animated them.
            Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages
            13
            Just a quick appearance to request a continuance on a minor matter.
            Bungalow 2
            14
            It was the continuance of things that crushed her already broken heart.
            Pines
            15
            He is preaching resignation to the people, and the continuance of things.
            Light
            16
            It is impossible that I can permit the continuance of such acts.
            Ismailia
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            Translations for continuance
            Continuance through the time
            Continuance across language varieties
            United Kingdom
            Common
            United States of America
            Less common