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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