(uncountable) The action of continuing.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. [...], London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606515406 OCLC]; republished…
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The period during which something continues or goes on; duration.
: Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie B…
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(countable, legal, chiefly, US) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.
In the living state, the body is observed to […] adopt most effectual measures for the permanent continuance of its species.
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