\Con*tin"u*ance\, n. [OF. continuance.]
1. A holding on, or remaining in a particular state;
   permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.;
   perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.
         Great plagues, and of long continuance. --Deut.
                                               xxviii. 59.
         Patient continuance in well-doing.    --Rom. ii. 7.
2. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal;
   perpetuation; propagation.
         The brute immediately regards his own preservation
         or the continuance of his species.    --Addison.
3. A holding together; continuity. [Obs.] --Bacon.
4. (Law)
   (a) The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one
       day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.
   (b) The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof
       on the record.