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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Jesus Continued
• God Continued...
Thompson Chain Reference
• Continuous Life
Dictionaries
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Mercy: Continual
King James Dictionary
• Continuing
• Continued
• Continue
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Continuity
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Continue, Continuance
• Continual, Continually
• Continuity
• Continually
Whyte's Bible Characters
• Paul's Great Heaviness and Continual Sorrow of Heart
Webster Dictionary
• Continuously
• Continuous
• Continuity
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Geometrical Continuity
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Continual; Continually
• Continuance
Lexicons
• ܟ݁ܰܬ݁ܰܪ
• Allegory; or Continued Metaphor and Hypocatastasis
• Parabola; or Parable: Ie Continued Simile
• ἀδιάλειπτος
• διά
• διαμένω
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• אָחַר
• אָמַן , אָמַן
• אָמַר , אָמַר
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CONTINUANCE, n. See Continue.

1. A holding on or remaining in a particular state, or in a course or series. Applied to time, duration a state of lasting as the continuance of rain or fair weather for a day or week. Sensual pleasure is of short continuance.

2. Perseverance as, no excuse will justify a continuance in sin.

By patient continuance in well doing. Romans 2 .

3. Abode residence as, during our continuance in Paris.

4. Succession uninterrupted continuation a prolonging of existence as, the brute regards the continuance of his species.

5. Progression of time.

In thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned. Psalm 139.

6. In law, the deferring of a suit, or the giving of a day for the parties to a suit to appear. After issue or demurrer joined, as well as in some of the previous stages of proceeding, a day is continually given, and entered upon record, for the parties to appear on from time to time. The giving of this day is called a continuance.

7. In the United States, the deferring of a trial or suit from one stated term of the court to another.

8. Continuity resistance to a separation of parts a holding together. Not used.