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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being continuous; uninterruptedness.

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  • noun The state or quality of being continuous.

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  • noun the quality of something that continues without end or interruption

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Examples

  • 1 (05/25/07) Actually upon deeper reflection while sitting at a coffeshop in solitude today, it might be better to read "continuousness" (an aspect) rather than "present-future" (a tense) here.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • 1 (05/25/07) Actually upon deeper reflection while sitting at a coffeshop in solitude today, it might be better to read "continuousness" (an aspect) rather than "present-future" (a tense) here.

    The headache of the Indo-European subjunctive 2007

  • Between these two lofty and dreaded mountains, there is a deep valley, or rather a succession of deep valleys, for the occurrence at short spaces of low hills breaks the continuousness of that with which the space between those mountains commences.

    Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

  • Mrs. Mendenhall, of Cincinnati, who knew their abundant labors, speaks of them as unsurpassed in the extent and continuousness of their sacrifices.

    Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan

  • The teachers and preachers who seek to implant in the young the principles of continuousness of purpose and of regularity and of kindred qualities must turn their backs on Lloyd George.

    Lloyd George The Man and His Story Frank Dilnot

  • The ability to comprehend continuousness or interruption; to give undivided and continued attention to one subject, or to interrupt intelligently; application, connectedness.

    How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony William Windsor

  • The participle (yotse ') emphasizes the continuousness of the act, but it is not to be translated as a present,

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • One of the facts which impresses itself on the mind of a minister of another communion is the extraordinary solidarity and continuousness in movement and in outlook of that great and splendid communion whose history is inwrought with so much that is best in the history of our people, I mean the Church of England.

    The Imperial Significance of Games 1929

  • The mystical element, the oneness and continuousness comes out very clearly in the notion of Wakonda among the Sioux Indians ....

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • Though the two ideas of being and non-being are found in every succession, the relation between these two ideas cannot represent to us real continuousness, and therefore it remains in the ideal order.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

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