Thesaurus: continuance

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1. n. A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.
2. n. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation.
3. n. A holding together; continuity.
4. n. The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.
5. n. The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.
6. n. the act of continuing an activity without interruption
7. n. the period of time during which something continues
8. n. the property of enduring or continuing in time
9. 1. A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay. Great plagues, and of long continuence. Deut. xxviii. 59. Patient continuance i well-doing. Rom. ii. 7. 2. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewell; perpetuation; propagation. The brute immedistely regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. Addison. 3. A holding together; continuity. [Obs.] Bacon. 4. (Law) (a) The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another. (b) The entry of such adjuornment and the grounds thereof on the record.
10. n:100 n. the act of continuing an activity without interruption