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Continence
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
(Latin: continere, to contain)
The virtue or strength of will by which man controls his bodily emotions, particularly those connected with sex; a form of the virtue of temperance; the state of one who controls the sex instinct.
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Entry for 'Continence'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/c/continence.html. 1910.