different between continuance vs endurance

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

Alternative forms

• enduraunce, indurance, induraunce (all obsolete)

Etymology

[Late 15th Century] From Middle French endurance, from Old French endurance.

Morphologically endure +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?dj????ns/, /?n?dj????ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?d???ns/, /?n?d??ns/
• Hyphenation: en?du?rance

Noun

endurance (countable and uncountable, plural endurances)

1. The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.

2. Ability to endure hardship.
3. (nautical) The length of time that a ship's rations will supply

Synonyms

• thole (obsolete, rare, or regional)

Translations

French

Etymology

endurer +? -ance

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

endurance f (plural endurances)

1. endurance, stamina

Further reading

• “endurance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).