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- noun Obsolete form of
continuance .
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Examples
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For the lawe giuer thoughte that it was harde to finde a bettre waye of curyng, then that the which of suche antiquitie was by longe practise founde oute and allowed, and deliuered vnto them by suche a continuaunce.
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For yf they ware so good in continuaunce, as thei be violente at a brunte: ther ware no multitude able to susteine their force.
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Then do thei ceare it ouer with Mirrhe and Cinamome and suche other thinges as wil not onely preserue it to continuaunce, but also make it soote smelling.
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And because thei acqueinte not their table with surfet, in dede thei know not so many kindes of sickenesses, ne so many names of diseases as we doe: but thei bettre knowe what sounde healthe meaneth, and staied continuaunce of the same then euer we are like.
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A continuaunce of la - wes, a permanente state of common wealthe dooeth ensue.
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When all thinges were in readinesse and the traine of Adelasia in good order, according to the worthines of the house whereof she came, they rode toward Sauonne, which iourney seemed to them but a sport, for the pleasure mixte with compassion that eche man conceiued, in the discourse that Alerane made vpon his misfortunes and chaunces, as well in his iourneis, as of his abode and continuaunce in the desarts.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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They were to be chosen out of the city of London and the county of Middlesex, and to be despatched to Dieppe for service under the Earl of Essex "a service vearie necessarie and we hope not of any long continuaunce," (1699) wrote the queen.
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So God disposeth the state and seate of princes, ouer - throwyng often tymes mightier kyngdomes at his will: the continuaunce of this Monarchie was .157. and eight mone -
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If a continuaunce of Gods procreacion were not, immediatlie a ruine and ende would ensue of thinges.
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In the meane space, and during my still continuaunce in the Cittye afterwardes, they not onely very courteously offered to beare mine owne charges and my followers, but very bountifully performed it at the common charges: the Mayor and many of the Aldermen often times besides inuited vs priuately to theyr seuerall houses.
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833
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