Many people leave the condition to go untreated for far too long and jeopardize their chances of regaining continence. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
With all its color and fierce action, a certain Greek continence pervades it. From Wordnik.com. [Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference
Following (and adapting) Aristotle, virtue ethicists draw a distinction between full or perfect virtue and "continence", or strength of will. From Wordnik.com. [Virtue Ethics] Reference
But I spared you because of my shadow's grudging reports as to your continence, which is a virtue that we of the Léshy peculiarly revere. ". From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
"continence," is not to be relied upon as a method of birth control. From Wordnik.com. [Woman and the New Race] Reference
A continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
All other animals observe this period of continence. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
Every boy should know that chastity means continence. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
It is situated upon a neck of land at the continence of. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
The rule of continence was far less strict than in the Catholic. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
"O most ill-timed, iron continence!" she wailed under her breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Sometimes the surgeons never manage to restore the patient's continence. From Wordnik.com. [More Vicious Than Rape] Reference
This change can be wrought in from one to three years of absolute continence. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
Strict continence is neither injurious to health, nor does it produce impotence. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
The law for youth is perfect continence — a pure vestalate alike in both sexes. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
As to continence, its claim to praise seems to lie rather in overcoming pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
A woman's virtue is her continence, and a man's virtues are truthfulness and courage. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Besides, her continence in remaining a widow at her tender age commanded general esteem. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But one whereby pleasure and voluptuousness may be resisted and opposed, I see: continence. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Let people have married or be anyhow steeled in continence before they are admitted to baptism. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
They consult their genii, they fast, the married persons observe continence; and all to obtain a favourable dream. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
The perfect carrying out of this general moral law implies continence on the part of the male adolescent until marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
Though practising the vow of continence from his very youth, as soon as he felt the influence of desire, the Rishi's vital fluid came out. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Especially during adolescence, the easy observance of natural continence depends greatly on the proper functioning of the feminine genital organs. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
It must be remembered that a married man can practice the most absolute continence and enjoy a far better state of health than the licentious man. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics] Reference
He distilled the eternal battle between virtue and vice into the most honest prayer I've ever heard: "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.". From Wordnik.com. [Rising Above Tech's Temptations] Reference
Obj. 2: Further, the mortification of the body by fasting belongs to abstinence, by continence belongs to chastity, by martyrdom belongs to fortitude. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
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