continuance
/kənˈtɪnjuəns/ sustantivo C2En español: continuación, duración, aplazamiento
- The action of continuing.
- The period during which something continues or goes on; duration.
- An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.
Plural continuances
De la biblioteca
The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance; and Miss Lucas, who accepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment, cared not how soon that establishment were gained.
Darcy had described as the idleness and vice of many years’ continuance.
“Madame,” answered the count, “you are under the roof of one who esteems himself most fortunate in having been able to save you from a further continuance of your sufferings.”
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