Crossword-Solution: CONTINENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Continence | n. | Alt. of Continency |
We have 15 clues for the answer “CONTINENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge | 1 answer |
| CHASTENESS | 2 answers |
| Self-restraint. | 3 answers |
| chastity | 14 answers |
| Decency | 39 answers |
| virginity | 42 answers |
| abstinence | 51 answers |
| Proscrip-tion | 53 answers |
| Temperance | 58 answers |
| Forfeit | 65 answers |
| purity | 65 answers |
| forfeiture | 68 answers |
| moderation | 73 answers |
| Prohibition | 74 answers |
| Reserve | 95 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTINENCE (5)
Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.
Also thei sein, good is to save 470 With penance and with abstinence Of chastite the continence; Bot pleinly forto speke of that, I not how thilke body fat, Which thei with deynte metes kepe And leyn it softe forto slepe, Whan it hath elles al his wille, With chastite schal stonde stille: And natheles I can noght seie, In aunter if that I misseye.
Armand and Mme de Langeais, like Hindoo fakirs, found the reward of their continence in the temptations to which it gave rise.
For his misfortune, they were so strongly persuaded of his continence, that the possibility of his harbouring indecent thoughts never once entered their imaginations.
This justifies the high providence of God, who, though he command us temperance, justice, continence, yet pours out before us, even to a profuseness, all desirable things, and gives us minds that can wander beyond all limit and satiety.
Quotes with CONTINENCE (3)
I reached for her, pushing back the fall of hair-it was heavy and thick and smooth to the touch-and tilted her chin so that the moonlight shone on her wet face. We married each other that night, there on a bed of fallen pine needles-even today, the scent of pitch-pine stirs me-with Henry's distant flute for a wedding march and the arching white birch boughs for our basilica. At first, she quivered like an aspen, and I was ashamed at my lack of continence, yet I could not let …
The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption are costly, they are felt to be noble and honorific. Therefore the base classes, primarily the women, practice an enforced continence with respect to these stimulants, except in countries where they are obtainable at a very low cost. From archaic times down through all the length of the patriarchal regime it has been the office of the…
For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state.