'Continuance' definitions:
Definition of 'continuance'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of continuing an activity without interruption [syn: continuance, continuation] [ant: discontinuance, discontinuation]
noun
The period of time during which something continues [syn: duration, continuance]
noun
The property of enduring or continuing in time [syn: duration, continuance]
Definition of 'Continuance'
From: GCIDE
- Continuance \Con*tin"u*ance\, n. [OF. continuance.]
- 1. A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay. [1913 Webster]
- Great plagues, and of long continuance. --Deut. xxviii. 59. [1913 Webster]
- Patient continuance in well-doing. --Rom. ii. 7. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation. [1913 Webster]
- The brute immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A holding together; continuity. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 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 adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'continuance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abidingness,
- addendum,
- afterthought,
- age,
- antiquity,
- appendix,
- back matter,
- ceaselessness,
- chorus,
- coda,
- codicil,
- coeternity,
- colophon,
- conclusion,
- consequence,
- constancy,
- continualness,
- continuation,
- defeat of time,
- defiance of time,
- diuturnity,
- double take,
- durability,
- durableness,
- duration,
- dying words,
- endlessness,
- endurance,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eternalness,
- eternity,
- ever-duringness,
- everlastingness,
- everness,
- follow-through,
- follow-up,
- foreverness,
- immutability,
- incessancy,
- indestructibility,
- infinite duration,
- infinity,
- interminability,
- last words,
- lastingness,
- long standing,
- long-lastingness,
- long-livedness,
- longevity,
- maintenance,
- never-endingness,
- Parthian shot,
- parting shot,
- perdurability,
- perennation,
- perenniality,
- perennialness,
- permanence,
- peroration,
- perpetualness,
- perpetuity,
- persistence,
- postface,
- postfix,
- postlude,
- postscript,
- PS,
- refrain,
- run,
- second thought,
- sempiternity,
- sequel,
- sequela,
- sequelae,
- sequelant,
- sequent,
- sequitur,
- stability,
- standing,
- steadfastness,
- subscript,
- suffix,
- supplement,
- survival,
- survivance,
- swan song,
- tag,
- timelessness,
- unceasingness
Words containing 'Continuance'
- Continuable,
- Continual,
- Continually,
- Continuant,
- Continuate,
- Continuation,
- Continuative,
- Continuator,
- Continue,
- Continued,
- Continuedly,
- Continuer,
- Continuing,
- Continuities,
- Continuity,
- Continuous,
- Continuously,
- Continuousness,
- Continual proportionals,
- Continued bass,
- Continued fever,
- Continued fraction,
- Continued proportion,
- Continuous brake,
- Continuous impost,
- Law of continuity,
- Solution of continuity,
- continuant consonant,
- continuing education,
- continuing trespass,
- continuous current,
- continuous tense,
- good continuation,
- law of continuation,
- continuity army council,
- continuous creation theory,
- continuous receiver watch,
- continuity irish republican army