How To Use Continency In A Sentence
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One of the most frequently named of them is 'incontinency', which seems to refer to either premarital or extramarital sex.
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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.]
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The works of the temperate spirit and the works of incontinency are, I take it, diametrically opposed?
Memorabilia
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Odysseus through his continency and the ‘promptings66 of Hermes’ abstained from touching them immoderately, and by the same token did not turn into
Memorabilia
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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
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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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| Reply precious rules though. ever notice that older women with incontinency issues always seem to be smiling about their new drip-prevention products?
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The rules of advertising.
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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
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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
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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
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The cause of much waking in a dry brain, continual meditation, discontent, fears and cares, that suffer not the mind to be at rest, incontinency is from wind, and a hot liver, Montanus, cons.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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John Major in the life of John the monk, that lived in the days of Theodosius, commends the hermit to have been a man of singular continency, and of a most austere life; but one night by chance the devil came to his cell in the habit of a young market wench that had lost her way, and desired for God's sake some lodging with him.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Aristotle is said to have been guilty of great vanity in his clothes, of incontinency, and of unfaithfulness to his master,
Religio Medici
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[4902] I will not conceal it, she overcame me with her presence, and quite assaulted my continency which I had kept unto mine old age; I resisted a long time my bodily eyes with the eyes of my understanding; at last I was conquered, and as in a tempest carried headlong.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Instead of wasting money, time and human capital on “stopping global warming” the only rational focus of climatologists, physicists, politicians and others who care about things like national viability ought to be what will be the exact continency management plans not if but when the continential glaciers begin their inexorable return.
An Esper Spaghetti Graph « Climate Audit
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There is an incontinency of friendship among young fellows, who are associated by their mutual pleasures only, which has, very frequently, bad consequences.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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The property was then in the possession of one Thomas Power, with whom his mother had been living "in the state of incontinency without being married to him.
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They did NO continency planning, ‘cuz they never thought they’d fail.
Firedoglake » IRAQ: Republicans Vote to Sit and Watch
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While laws are prescribed to matrons ... virginity and continency are beyond all law; there is nothing in the laws of matrimony which pertains to virginity; for by its loftiness it transcends them all.
Archive 2009-05-03
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The European Union is leading the way on yet more excuses for civil continency bills which remove the need for Parliamentary debate not that you'd get much of one in Westminster and another convenient way to raise taxes.
Archive 2007-01-01
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In her chamber, making a sermon of continency to her;
The Taming of the Shrew
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That, after all, incontinency is powerless to bring us to that realm of sweetness which some look upon579 as her peculiar province; it is not incontinency but self-control alone which has the passport to highest pleasures.
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