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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Incontinence \In*con"ti*nence\, Incontinency \In*con"ti*nen*cy\,
n. [L. incontinentia: cf F. incontinence.]
1. Incapacity to hold hence incapacity to hold back or
restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want
of continence; failure to restrain the passions or
appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness.
That Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. --1
Cor. vii. 5.
From the rash hand of bold incontinence. --Milton.
2. (Med.) The inability of any of the animal organs to
restrain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges
are involuntary; as incontinence of urine.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
incontinency
n : involuntary urination or defecation [syn: {incontinence}]
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