Continuance
noun
The state of lasting or remaining unchanged.
He requested a continuance of his duties as chairman
Often appears as...
- grant a continuance
- request a continuance
noun
A legal term where a trial or hearing is postponed to a later date.
The judge granted a continuance to allow the defense more time to gather evidence
Often appears as...
- motion for continuance
- granted a continuance
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Formal
Technical
noun
An act or instance of lasting.
The continuance of her stay was uncertain
Often appears as...
- continuance of stay
- continuance of service
noun
The state of lasting or remaining unchanged.
He requested a continuance of his duties as chairman
Often appears as...
- grant a continuance
- request a continuance
noun
A legal term where a trial or hearing is postponed to a later date.
The judge granted a continuance to allow the defense more time to gather evidence
Often appears as...
- motion for continuance
- granted a continuance
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
An act or instance of lasting.
The continuance of her stay was uncertain
Often appears as...
- continuance of stay
- continuance of service
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Unchanging State
Use 'continuance' to emphasize something remains constant over time.
Despite changes in management, the continuance of the company's ethos was impressive.
Pro Tip 2/2Extended Duration
'Continuance' often suggests an extension beyond the expected or original time.
The continuance of the festival was due to its overwhelming success.
Pro Tip 1/2Unchanging State
Use 'continuance' to emphasize something remains constant over time.
Despite changes in management, the continuance of the company's ethos was impressive.
Pro Tip 2/2Extended Duration
'Continuance' often suggests an extension beyond the expected or original time.
The continuance of the festival was due to its overwhelming success.
Pro Tip 1/2Unchanging State
Use 'continuance' to emphasize something remains constant over time.
Despite changes in management, the continuance of the company's ethos was impressive.
Pro Tip 2/2Extended Duration
'Continuance' often suggests an extension beyond the expected or original time.
The continuance of the festival was due to its overwhelming success.
Compare with
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Quote examples
Peter Coyote
American Actor
We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.
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Tony Judt
British Historian
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.
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Albert J. Nock
American Philosopher
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
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Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
German Royalty
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.
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Said Nursi
Turkish Theologian
The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent.
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Frank Moore Colby
American Educator
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
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Susan Griffin
American Writer
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
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Saint Augustine
Saint
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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Charles Henry Parkhurst
American Clergyman
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
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Peter Coyote
American Actor
We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.
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Tony Judt
British Historian
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.
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Albert J. Nock
American Philosopher
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
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Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
German Royalty
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.
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Said Nursi
Turkish Theologian
The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent.
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Frank Moore Colby
American Educator
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
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Susan Griffin
American Writer
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
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Saint Augustine
Saint
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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Charles Henry Parkhurst
American Clergyman
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
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