Meaning of continent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one’s bodily needs or passions, especially sex.
2. Having voluntary control over one’s urination or defecation.
3. Not interrupted; connected; continuous, whether in time or space.
   obsolete
4. Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
   obsolete
5. Containing or capable of containing.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.”

“Their strength was the strength of men geographically beyond temptation: the poverty of Arabia made them simple, continent, enduring.”

“A celibate himself, he was of the opinion that marriage was something of a concession to human frailty, to save from fornication those who could not be continent, so it was better to marry than to burn with lust.”

“a continent fever”

“Affrike and Europe bordering on your land, And continent to your Dominions: […]”

“The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disjoined by sea of all that coast.”

“There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine, [...] hight Coſtard, (Clow[ne]. O mee) ſorted and conſorted contrary to thy eſtabliſhed proclaymed Edict and continent Cannon; Which with, o with, but with this I paſſion to ſay wherewith: / Clo[wne]. With a Wench.”

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