Continuance definition

kən-tĭnyo͝o-əns
The act or fact of continuing.

The continuance of bad weather.

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(law) A postponement or adjournment to a later date.
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The time during which something exists or lasts; duration.

His continuance in office was brief.

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A continuation or sequel.

This show is a continuance of last year's series.

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(law) Postponement or adjournment to a future date.
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The act or process of continuing, or lasting.
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The time during which an action, process, or state lasts; duration.
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The fact of remaining (in a place or condition); stay.
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(rare) Continuation; sequel.
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The adjournment or postponement to another date of a trial or other proceeding. See also adjourn.
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(uncountable) The action of continuing.
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(countable, law) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
continuance
Plural:
continuances

Origin of continuance

  • From Old French continuance, from continuer.

    From Wiktionary

Continuance Sentence Examples

  • The present life is so little worth living that its continuance is not to be desired.

  • If during the continuance of the letting, the thing hired is entirely destroyed by accident, the lease is cancelled.

  • Throughout the continuance of the government under the provincial charter, there was a constant struggle between a prerogative party, headed by the royal governor, and a popular party who cherished recollections of their practical independence under the colonial charter, and who were nursing the sentiments which finally took the form of resistance in 1775.

  • It consists, that is to say, in a range of bright lines, the agreement of which with the negative pole bands of nitrogen, together with details of interest connected with its mode of production, was ascertained by a continuance of the research.

  • Some have their legs or arms distorted by long continuance in one position; others have kept their hands clenched until the finger nails have pierced entirely through their hands.

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