Meanings of incontinency in inglés

The incontinency of his wife contributed to wean his soul from all earthly ties.

The works of the temperate spirit and the works of incontinency are, I take it, diametrically opposed?

Then did Pheroras reproach Salome for her incontinency, as did the women much more; and said that Sylleus had debauched her.

In early infancy, already, this Merlin showed his miraculous powers, for he testified in his mother's behalf when she was accused of incontinency.

Harassed and chained down as he was, the councils of Anse, Clermont, Dijon, Autun, Poietiers, and Lyons were thundering against simony and incontinency.

There is an incontinency of friendship among young fellows, who are associated by their mutual pleasures only, which has, very frequently, bad consequences.

Whilst I was thus making these laudable dispositions, and whispering to myself a kind of tacit vow of incontinency, enters Mr. H...

"You are charged with incontinency towards the king's highness," replied Suffolk sternly.

But I have said enough to make you feel that the raw material of sanctity is concupiscence, incontinencies, all impurities of flesh and mind.

2 Esdr 5:10 And shall be sought of many, and yet not be found: then shall unrighteousness and incontinency be multiplied upon earth.