Adjective : incontinent of temper. ,an incontinent flow of talk. From Dictionary.com.
The incontinency of his wife contributed to wean his soul from all earthly ties. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Clermont, Dijon, Autun, Poietiers, and Lyons were thundering against simony and incontinency. From Wordnik.com. [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference
Nearly a thousand clergymen gathered in New York declared him a synonym of "incapacity and incontinency.". From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Whilst I was thus making these laudable dispositions, and whispering to myself a kind of tacit vow of incontinency, enters. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure] Reference
Aristotle is said to have been guilty of great vanity in his clothes, of incontinency, and of unfaithfulness to his master. From Wordnik.com. [Religio Medici] Reference
For the motion of the mind to any injustice, or incontinency, or to sorrow, or to fear, is nothing else but a separation from nature. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
There is an incontinency of friendship among young fellows, who are associated by their mutual pleasures only, which has, very frequently, bad consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
The penalty of incontinency is well known to you; I say, Aye. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Lovers] Reference
And who shall dare to accuse such a multitude of incontinency?. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Our Fathers] Reference
"You are charged with incontinency towards the king's highness," replied. From Wordnik.com. [Windsor Castle] Reference
The king's brother had several wives, one of whom was suspected of incontinency. From Wordnik.com. [Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa. (A Convert to Christianity,) With a Description of That Part of the World; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, Their Religious Notions, Form of Government, Laws, Appearance of the Country, Buildings, Agriculture, Manufactures, Shepherds and Herdsmen, Domestic Animals, Marriage Ceremonials, Funeral Services, Styles of Dress, Trade and Commerce, Modes of Warfare, System of Slavery, &c., &c. Mahommah's Early Life, His Education, His Capture and Slavery in Western Africa and Brazil, His Escape to the United States, from Thence to Hayti, (the City of Port Au Prince,) His Reception by the Baptist Missionary There, The Rev. W. L. Judd; His Conversion to Christianity, Baptism, and Return to This Country, His Views, Objects and Aim. Written and Revised from His Own Words, by Samuel Moore, Esq., Late Publisher of the "North of England Shipping Gazette," Author of Several Popular ] Reference
There are some lower extremity edema, I have urinary urgency with some incontinency. From Wordnik.com. [California Literary Review] Reference
The works of the temperate spirit and the works of incontinency are, I take it, diametrically opposed?. From Wordnik.com. [The Memorabilia] Reference
What had he to do with gluttony, drunkenness, pride, wantonness, incontinency, and the rest of my ware?. From Wordnik.com. [The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation] Reference
Older procedures were only 75\% - 80\% successful and, after five years some recurrence of incontinency was common. From Wordnik.com. [Emaxhealth] Reference
= Polinesso =, duke of Albany, who falsely accused Geneura of incontinency, and was slain in single combat by Ariodantês. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
I'll get a physician that shall prescribe her an ounce of camphire every morning, for her breakfast, to abate incontinency. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference
Whilst I was thus making these laudable dispositions, and whispering to myself a kind of tacit vow of incontinency, enters Mr. H. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)] Reference
And that you may understand that it is not the devil only who causeth this crime, I mean adultery, he adds, "because of your incontinency.". From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
"of fleshy incontinency, greedy avarice and disordered lives". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
A public trial for treason and incontinency, defends herself nobly, and is pronounced innocent by the oracle. From Wordnik.com. [Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical] Reference
Old folks 'incontinency taxed. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Thou didst accuse him of incontinency. From Wordnik.com. [Cymbeline] Reference
Aristotle is said to have been guilty of great vanity in his clothes, of incontinency, and of unfaithfulness to his master, Alexander II. ". From Wordnik.com. [Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend] Reference
That he is open to incontinency. From Wordnik.com. [Hamlet] Reference
That he is open to incontinency. From Wordnik.com. [Act II. Scene I] Reference
The cognizance of her incontinency. From Wordnik.com. [Cymbeline] Reference
Seize that, and for incontinency strip me. From Wordnik.com. [Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10)] Reference
Thou didst accuse him of incontinency; 40. From Wordnik.com. [Act III. Scene IV. Cymbeline] Reference
"But this I say because of your incontinency.". From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
574 Or, “incontinency is illiberal.”. From Wordnik.com. [Memorabilia] Reference
Her name is a by-word for incontinency (A.D. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
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