Lexicographical Neighbors of Continences
Literary usage of Continences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Courtier by Baldassarre Castiglione (1903)
"... if I say the truth, for in short these are the miraculous continences that
men write about themselves while accusing women of incontinence, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Literature: An Armenian literature continences with the introduction of the
Armenian writing. Until the fourth century they wrote Syriac, Greek, or Persian. ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"And what's the continences now ? Oh, Harry Foker, what a confounded little fool
you have been!" As he made this dreary soliloquy, be had cantered out of ..."
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