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Continuance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A holding on or remaining in a particular state, or in a course or series. Applied to time, duration; a state of lasting; as the continuance of rain or fair weather for a day or week. Sensual pleasure is of short continuance

2. Perseverance; as, no excuse will justify a continuance in sin.

3. By patient continuance in well doing. Romans 2:7 .

4. Abode; residence; as, during our continuance in Paris.

5. Succession uninterrupted; continuation; a prolonging of existence; as, the brute regards the continuance of his species.

6. Progression of time.

7. In thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned. Psalms 139:16 .

8. In law, the deferring of a suit, or the giving of a day for the parties to a suit to appear. After issue or demurrer joined, as well as in some of the previous stages of proceeding, a day is continually given, and entered upon record, for the parties to appear on from time to time. The giving of this day is called a continuance

9. In the United States, the deferring of a trial or suit from one stated term of the court to another.

10. Continuity; resistance to a separation of parts; a holding together. [Not used.]

Continuance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.

2. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation.

3. A holding together; continuity.

4. The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.

5. The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.

Diuturnity Roget’s Thesaurus §110

N. diuturnity, a long time, a length of time, an age, a century, an eternity, slowness, perpetuity, blue moon, coon's age, dog's age, durableness, durability, persistence, endlessness, lastingness, continuance, standing, permanence survival, survivance, longevity, distance of time, protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time, delay

V. last, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand years, tarry, drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a lengthening chain, protract, prolong, spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen out, temporize, gain time, make time, talk against time, outlast, outlive, survive, live to fight again

Adj. durable, lasting, of long duration, of long-standing, permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing, intransient, intransitive, intransmutable, persistent, lifelong, livelong, longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial, sempervirent, sempervirid, unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting, perpetual, lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out, long-pending, long- winded, slow

Adv. long, for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day, long ago, longo intervallo, all the day long, all the year round, the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night, hour after hour, day after day, &c, for good, permanently

Continuance in action Roget’s Thesaurus §143

N. continuance, continuation, run, perpetuation, prolongation, persistence, repetition

V. continue, persist, go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on, abide, keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course, maintain its course, carry on, keep up, sustain, uphold, hold up, keep on foot, follow up, perpetuate, maintain, preserve, harp upon, keep going, keep alive, keep the pot boiling, keep up the ball, keep up the good work, die in harness, die with one's boots on, hold on the even tenor of one's way, pursue the even tenor of one's way, let be, stare super antiquas vias, quieta non movere, let things take their course, stare decisis

Adj. continuing, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unvarying, unshifting, unreversed, unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried, sustained, undying, inconvertible

Int. keep it up, go to it, right away, right on, attaboy, phr, nolumus leges angliae mutari, vestigia nulla retrorsum, labitur et albetur

Perseverance Roget’s Thesaurus §604a

N. perseverance, continuance, permanence, firmness, constancy, steadiness, singleness of purpose, tenacity of purpose, persistence, plodding, patience, sedulity, pertinacy|, pertinacity, pertinaciousness, iteration bottom, game, pluck, stamina, backbone, grit, indefatigability, indefatigableness, bulldog courage

V. persevere, persist, hold on, hold out, die in the last ditch, be in at the death, stick to, cling to, adhere to, stick to one's text, keep on, keep to one's course, keep to one's ground, maintain one's course, maintain one's ground, go all lengths, go through fire and water, bear up, keep up, hold up, plod, stick to work, continue, follow up, die in harness, die at one's post

Adj. persevering, constant, steady, steadfast, undeviating, unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unsleeping, unflagging, undrooping, steady as time, unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting, plodding, industrious, strenuous, pertinacious, persisting, persistent, solid, sturdy, staunch, stanch, true to oneself, unchangeable, unconquerable, indomitable, game to the last, indefatigable, untiring, unwearied, never tiring

Adv. through evil report and good report, through thick and thin, through fire and water, per fas et nefas, without fail, sink or swim, at any price, vogue la galere

Phr. never say die, give it the old college try, vestigia nulla retrorsum, aut vincer aut mori, la garde meurt et ne se rend pas, tout vient a temps pour qui sait attendre