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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
Great plagues, and of long continuance. --Deut.
xxviii. 59.
Patient continuance in well-doing. --Rom. ii 7.
2. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal;
perpetuation; propagation.
The brute immediately 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 adjournment and the grounds thereof
on the record.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
continuance
n 1: the act of continuing or resuming an activity [syn: {continuation}]
[ant: {discontinuance}, {discontinuance}]
2: the period of time during which something continues [syn: {duration}]
3: the property of enduring or continuing in time [syn: {duration}]
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