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Meanings of incontinency in English

Portuguese
incontinência
Catalan
incontinència
Spanish
incontinencia

Involuntary urination or defecation.

        incontinência
        Synonyms
        Examples for "incontinence"
        Examples for "incontinence"
        1
        Fecal incontinence remains a major problem with significant social and medical implications.
        Pubmed
        2
        Sales of incontinence products have risen every year during the past decade.
        Reuters
        3
        Thus, we usually used transobturator tape in the treatment of stress incontinence.
        Pubmed
        4
        Yes, the funny lady is tackling the serious topic of adult incontinence.
        Ebony
        5
        It might represent a new alternative for the treatment of fecal incontinence.
        Pubmed
        Usage of incontinency in English
        1
        The incontinency of his wife contributed to wean his soul from all earthly ties.
        The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
        2
        The works of the temperate spirit and the works of incontinency are, I take it, diametrically opposed?
        The Memorabilia
        3
        Then did Pheroras reproach Salome for her incontinency, as did the women much more; and said that Sylleus had debauched her.
        Antiquities of the Jews
        4
        In early infancy, already, this Merlin showed his miraculous powers, for he testified in his mother's behalf when she was accused of incontinency.
        The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story
        5
        Harassed and chained down as he was, the councils of Anse, Clermont, Dijon, Autun, Poietiers, and Lyons were thundering against simony and incontinency.
        The Truce of God / A Tale of the Eleventh Century
        6
        There is an incontinency of friendship among young fellows, who are associated by their mutual pleasures only, which has, very frequently, bad consequences.
        Letters to His Son, 1749 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
        7
        Whilst I was thus making these laudable dispositions, and whispering to myself a kind of tacit vow of incontinency, enters Mr. H...
        Memoirs of Fanny Hill / A New and Genuine Edition from the Origi...
        8
        "You are charged with incontinency towards the king's highness," replied Suffolk sternly.
        Windsor Castle
        9
        But I have said enough to make you feel that the raw material of sanctity is concupiscence, incontinencies, all impurities of flesh and mind.
        The Queen Pedauque
        10
        2 Esdr 5:10 And shall be sought of many, and yet not be found: then shall unrighteousness and incontinency be multiplied upon earth.
        Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible / Apocrypha
        Translations for incontinency
        Portuguese
        incontinência
        Incontinency through the time