Definition of "continence" noun usually uncountable , plural continences
Moderation or self -restraint , especially in sexual activity ; abstinence . quotations examples
Quotations For this was a line so little frequented , especially at this hour , when the driver , the stoker , the guard and the station staffs all along the line , were anhelating towards their wives , after the long hours of continence , that the train would hardly draw up , when it would be off again , like a bouncing ball .
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press
Uninterrupted course ; continuity . quotations examples
Quotations the Continence of the Cause should be divided
1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […]