Adjective : continuous coughing during the concert. ,a continuous series of blasts; a continuous row of warehouses.    From Dictionary.com. 

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

Mrs. Mendenhall, of Cincinnati, who knew their abundant labors, speaks of them as unsurpassed in the extent and continuousness of their sacrifices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference

The ability to comprehend continuousness or interruption; to give undivided and continued attention to one subject, or to interrupt intelligently; application, connectedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference

Mrs. Grail talked with pleasant continuousness, as usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thyrza] Reference

The continuousness of the sound in close relation to the complexity is splendid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference

The continuousness of the sound that shines in an exact part gives a good impression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference

Their design is exclusive for this car with offers a continuousness effect, with the chassis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jalopnik] Reference

But even where the work is not in itself so severe, it is made oppressive by its continuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tupelo] Reference

But the prolongation of these throughout life requires the steadfast continuousness of gaze towards Him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference

A great many people say, 'One thing have I desired,' and fail in persistent continuousness of the desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference

The participle (yotse ') emphasizes the continuousness of the act, but it is not to be translated as a present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

The Apostle not merely emphasises the continuousness of this communicated strength, but its many-sided variety, by designating it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.] Reference

What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

It's great for a party to have a little dissention going into a primary, but it's disastrous to have such continuousness in a general election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leader Call Homepage] Reference

Again, the next two extracts, from one page, show Mr. Morley wrongly substituting continuity, which only means continuousness, for continuance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malaprops.] Reference

And Paul wishes for them, and can wish for them, nothing better and more than the increase and continuousness of that which they already possess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference

Although childless, she was of a placid and contented disposition; so much so that her smile became rather wearisome from its very continuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories] Reference

It had neither the continuousness nor the range of Browning's many-sided conversation, nor did it possess the charm of the ethereal visionariness of Newman's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference

It has been said that there is power and continuousness enough in the tides, winds, rotating and revolving worlds for man to make a machine for perpetual motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Forces] Reference

Armenians were wearing badges with a note saying "YES to Resolution and NO to continuousness", while Turks were wearing badges with only one note: "NO to Resolution".    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

One splendid satisfying sweep passes with easy transition into another, and there is nothing to trouble or dislocate the strong continuousness of the main line of the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Travel] Reference

This is harder and requires more trust (or, to put it another way, is a more anxiety inspiring aproach;), but it fits reality, one that is based on "continuousness of process".    From Wordnik.com.  [aseigo] Reference

Thus the same brooding memory which brought back to him the sweet pain of his gentle kinswoman's household melody, preserved the darker side of his history with equal fidelity and no less perfect continuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference

More than ever during the period which we call modern history has this idea of the continuousness of our race, and especially of the inhabitants of Europe and America, become almost oppressive to the imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Often before, when we were the best friends, had I listened with delight, while he compelled it into discourse of music wild and somewhat incoherent still: his present performance had now attained more continuousness and character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story] Reference

The closing verse tells again how Nehemiah's immediate dependants divided work and watching, and adds to the picture the continuousness of their toil from the first grey of morning till darkness showed the stars and ended another day of toil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference

These three poems are Mr. Browning's first, and they are also, as I have said, the one partial exception to the unity and continuousness of his work; they have, at least, one common characteristic which detaches them from the remainder of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)] Reference

The directness, fulness, and continuousness of His inspiration are emphatically proclaimed in that word 'shall rest,' which can scarcely fail to recall John's witness, 'I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven; and it abode upon Him.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference

In the case of the snake-rope the non-reality of the snake results from the snake's being sublated (bâdhita) by the cognition of the true nature of the substrate 'This is a rope, not a snake'; it does not result from the non-continuousness of the snake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference

(a) If we ask how opposites can coexist, we are told that many different qualities inhere in a flower or a tree or in any other concrete object, and that any conception of space or matter or time involves the two contradictory attributes of divisibility and continuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sophist] Reference

Here one figure is not enough to express the continuousness of the movement; the utmost simplification will not make you feel, as powerfully as he wishes you to feel it, the crawling progress, the bending together of back and thighs, the groping of worn fingers in the stubble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects] Reference