That is why the word incontinent doesn't mean flying between European countries. From Wordnik.com. [TSA implementing new rules of flying] Reference
For it is not the man who gives way to any sort of pleasure whatever who is called incontinent, but only he who gives way to a certain kind of pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
But such, though as much led away as the others, we do not in like manner call incontinent and intemperate, since they are ruined through ignorance and want of experience. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Could the current financial crisis do the same for "incontinent" investing?. From Wordnik.com. [Asset Firms] Reference
Mr McCain's aides have been labelled "incontinent" for leaks last week that revealed falling morale in his inner circle and mutual recriminations about his lacklustre campaign. From Wordnik.com. [PrairiePundit] Reference
Hauing thus spoken, went incontinent to take horsse. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second] Reference
Therefore the intemperate man sins more gravely than the incontinent. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
To that end I show you she is incontinent, and practised in falsehood. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
And incontinent, without all delay, thei wold have gevin sentence upoun. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
Whiche perceaved by thame, thare horsmen and footemen stayed incontinent. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
And incontinent they delivered again the banners and sent them to the king. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
Therefore the incontinent in anger is worse than the incontinent in desire. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
He took her incontinent upon his knee and began to deal in rather liberal innuendo. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Fenced paths: A few centers will not take clients who are incontinent or disruptive. From Wordnik.com. [A Home Away From Home] Reference
Nevertheless greater ignorance results thus in the intemperate than in the incontinent. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Sunk so low beneath the average level grave overly incontinent for concealment of corpses. From Wordnik.com. [Berkeley Stations] Reference
Be sure to have some protection for your bed and wear some incontinent pads during the day. From Wordnik.com. [An easier colonoscopy? Our readers weigh in] Reference
I looked helplessly after the girl, who had fled, incontinent, to the women at work in the field. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Objection 1: It would seem that the incontinent in anger is worse than the incontinent in desire. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
A light-hearted, sportive girl, with an incontinent overflow of spirits, is condemned as a hoiden. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
And then an odd thing happened to relieve Mungo's embarrassment and end incontinent his garrulity. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Therewith the bishop rested there, and incontinent came more flying fast, that they were out of breath. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
As her Alzheimer's progressed she became argumentative, then mute and, worse for my father, incontinent. From Wordnik.com. [The Power Of ‘I Am Sorry’] Reference
Give the lady credit for rationally evaluating the benefits of marrying an incontinent octogenarian multimillionaire. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology of Love—Not] Reference
Yoshie, a widow known at the factory as the "Skipper," has to take care of her bed-ridden and incontinent mother-in-law. From Wordnik.com. [BREAKING OUT OF JAPAN] Reference
But when the King came upon them lifeless, and fast in that embrace, incontinent he fell to the ground, bereft of sense. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Hence it follows that "the intemperate man is much worse than the incontinent," as also the Philosopher declares (Ethic. vii, 7). From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
That the sayd M. Patrike himself doubteth whether all children departing incontinent after their Baptisme, are saued or condemned. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
This story was so plainly fabricated to ease my apprehension that down I went, incontinent, and sought the right tale in the burgh. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
She is proved incontinent, and a practised liar, and she forswore herself in this court, and my lord is in two minds about committing her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
Mentally incontinent outbursts are framed and garbaged in the annals of the forgotten land, then the landwellers flush in the land and so be it. From Wordnik.com. [Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)] Reference
On the phone, his wife explained the problems: "Your father cries, he's lost weight, he is incontinent and the scans show that his brain is shrinking.". From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Laroux] Reference
Still, Paul is a likable eccentric, partly because he likes his constituents while disliking what he considers their incontinent appetite for government. From Wordnik.com. [A Cheerful Anachronism] Reference
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