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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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sequel
English
Etymology
From Middle French séquelle , from Latin sequela, from sequi (“to follow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?kw?l/
- Rhymes: -i?kw?l
Noun
sequel (plural sequels)
- (dated) The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.
- (narratology) A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.
- (Scotland, historical) Thirlage.
- (obsolete) A person's descendants.
Antonyms
- prequel
Coordinate terms
- midquel
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
Polish
Etymology
From English sequel, from Middle French séquelle, from Latin sequela, from sequi (“to follow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si.kw?l/
Noun
sequel m inan
- (narratology) sequel
Declension
Further reading
- sequel in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- sequel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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