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.
Hear it pronounced