continence

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Continency

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

temperance asceticism continency maidenhead puritanism control discipline purity discretion denial avoidance restraint constraint innocence celibacy

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Antonyms

intemperance sex mating penetration sexually intimacy

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Hypernyms

control restraint self-discipline self-denial

Phrases with the word

continence training sexual continence

Examples

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy. Ernest Hemingway

According to the continence foundation of Australia “bladder, bowel, and pelvic health problems affect over 5 million adult Australians. Source: Internet

Some of these privileges included not having to care for their own children as Oneida had a communal child care system, as well as freedom from unwanted pregnancies with Oneida’s male continence practice. Source: Internet

The virtue of continence is achieved thanks to the grace of the sacrament of Christian marriage, which becomes therefore a remedium concupiscentiae – remedy of concupiscence. Source: Internet

Potency and continence have always been the worrying side effects of surgery for prostate cancer. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

contiguous United States contiguously contiguousness continence training continency continent