How To Use continency In A Sentence
- One of the most frequently named of them is 'incontinency', which seems to refer to either premarital or extramarital sex. OUPblog
- I would the Duke we talk of were returned again: this ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with continency; sparrows must not build in his house-eaves, because 165 they are lecherous. Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
- The works of the temperate spirit and the works of incontinency are, I take it, diametrically opposed? Memorabilia
- Odysseus through his continency and the ‘promptings66 of Hermes’ abstained from touching them immoderately, and by the same token did not turn into Memorabilia
- Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- I would the duke we talk of were returned again: this ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with continency; sparrows must not build in his house-eaves, because they are lecherous. Act III. Scene II. Measure for Measure
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- Howsoever the best way is to contemn it, which [6214] Henry II. king of France advised a courtier of his, jealous of his wife, and complaining of her unchasteness, to reject it, and comfort himself; for he that suspects his wife's incontinency, and fears the Pope's curse, shall never live a merry hour, or sleep a quiet night: no remedy but patience. Anatomy of Melancholy
- I would the duke we talk of were returned again: the ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with continency; sparrows must not build in his house-eaves, because they are lecherous. Measure for Measure
- Much more, therefore, can he be dispensed from the vow of continency which is about an act of chastity. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
