different between continuance vs continuation

English

Alternative forms

• continuaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English continuance, contynuaunce, from Old French continuance, from continuer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?t?nju?ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?t?nj??ns/
• Hyphenation: con?tin?u?ance

Noun

continuance (countable and uncountable, plural continuances)

1. (uncountable) The action of continuing.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:

     Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16, [1]

     […] the interview's continuance already had attracted observation from some topmen aloft and other sailors in the waist or further forward.
2. (countable, law) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.

Synonyms

• (action of continuing): perdurance, remanence; see also Thesaurus:permanence

Antonyms

• discontinuance

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continu?ti?.Morphologically continue +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?nt?nj??e??(?)n/
• Hyphenation: con?tin?u?a?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

continuation (countable and uncountable, plural continuations)

1. The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession

   Synonyms: prolongation, propagation

   Antonyms: discontinuation, termination

2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.

   the continuation of a story

   The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.

3. (computing) A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point.
4. (basketball) A successful shot that, despite a foul, is made with a single continuous motion beginning before the foul, and that is therefore valid in certain forms of basketball.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

References

• continuation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Middle French continuation, from Old French continuation, borrowed from Latin continu?ti?, continu?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

Noun

continuation f (plural continuations)

1. continuation (act of continuing)

Derived terms

• bonne continuation

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French continuation.

Noun

continuation f (plural continuations)

1. continuation (act of continuing)

Descendants

• French: continuation

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)

Old French

Etymology

Late Old French, borrowed from Latin continu?ti?, continu?ti?nem.

Noun

continuation f (oblique plural continuations, nominative singular continuation, nominative plural continuations)

1. continuation (act of continuing)

Descendants

• Middle French: continuation
  • French: continuation
• ? Middle English: continuacion
  • English: continuation

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)