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Meaning of CONTINENCE
Pronunciation: | | 'kântnuns
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Matching Terms: | | continency
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| Definition: | | ability to hold in a bowel movement or urine. |
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| Related Terms: | | abnegation, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, asceticism, avoidance, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, banyan day, boundary, bounds, calm, calmness, celibacy, chasteness, chastity, confinement, conservatism, constraint, continency, control, cool, discipline, dispassion, Encratism, eschewal, evenness, fast, fish day, Friday, fruitarianism, gentleness, golden mean, gymnosophy, happy medium, impartiality, intactness, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, Lenten fare, limit, limitation, maidenhead, maidenhood, meden agan, middle way, mildness, misogamy, misogyny, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, monachism, monasticism, nephalism, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, plain living, Platonic love, prescription, proscription, prudence, purity, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, qualification, Rechabitism, refraining, refrainment, repose, restrain, restraint, restriction, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sexual abstinence, Shakerism, simple diet, single blessedness, single state, singleness, sobriety, spare diet, Spartan fare, spinsterhood, stability, steadiness, Stoicism, teetotalism, temperance, temperateness, the pledge, total abstinence, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unwed state, vegetarianism, via media, virgin state, virginity |
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