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continuance
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)
- (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.
- 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:
- (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
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prolongation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French prolongation, from Late Latin pr?long?ti?, from pr?long?tus, perfect passive participle of Latin pr?long?, from pr? + longus.
Noun
prolongation (countable and uncountable, plural prolongations)
- The act of prolonging.
- That which has been prolonged; an extension.
Synonyms
- (act of prolonging: extending in space): stretching
- (act of prolonging: extending the duration of): continuance, prolongment, prorogation, protraction
- (act of prolonging: putting off to a distant time): deferral, procrastination; see also Thesaurus:deferment
Translations
References
- prolongation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- prolongation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Etymology
From Old French prolongation, borrowed from Late Latin pr?long?ti?, pr?long?ti?nem, from pr?long?tus, perfect passive participle of Latin pr?long?, from pr? + longus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.l??.?a.sj??/
Noun
prolongation f (plural prolongations)
- extension
- (sports) overtime, extra time
Related terms
- prolonger
Further reading
- “prolongation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin pr?long?ti?, pr?long?ti?nem, from pr?long?tus, perfect passive participle of Latin pr?long?, from pr? + longus.
Noun
prolongation f (oblique plural prolongations, nominative singular prolongation, nominative plural prolongations)
- prolongation
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