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continencenoun abstention from sexual intercourseargued for a pregnancy-prevention program that did not put so much faith in the continence of teenagers abstinence, celibacy, chasteness, chastity modesty, purityhonor, innocence, virginity, virtue debauchery, lechery, licentiousness, venery, wenching, whoring the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with othersexperiencing a moment of unusual continence, I refrained from returning her gratuitous insult constraint, discipline, discretion, inhibition, refrainment, repression, reserve, restraint, self-command, self-control, self-restraint, suppression command, control, mastery, possessionself-censorship, self-containment, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, will, willpowercomposure, self-poise, self-possessionaloofness, detachedness, distancebashfulness, modesty, shynessreticence, silence, taciturnity disinhibition, incontinence, unconstraint self-abandonment, uninhibitednessunrestrainednessgratification, indulgence, overindulgence, self-indulgencebluntness, candor, franknessimmoderacy, intemperance the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotionsa religious sect that demanded nearly superhuman continence from its adherents restraint, self-command, self-containment, self-control, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, will, willpower self-abnegation, self-denialmoderateness, moderation, temperance, temperatenessdetermination, nervecommand, control, discipline, masteryabnegation, abstention, avoidance, eschewal, forbearanceabstinence, soberness, sobrietyaplomb, assurance, composure, confidence, coolness, equanimity, poise, self-confidencediscretion gratification, indulgence, self-indulgenceexcessiveness, immoderacy, intemperance, intemperateness, overindulgencedemerit, failing, fault, feebleness, foible, frailty, shortcoming, vice, weaknessindiscipline, unconstraint, unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetitesa gambling mecca that has a reputation for being the sort of place where caution and continence are thrown to the wind abstinence, self-abnegation, self-denial, sobriety, temperance control, forbearance, restraintdiscipline, self-command, self-control, self-discipline, self-masteryasceticism, austerity self-indulgence gluttony, greed, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracityhedonism, sensuality, sybaritism in the 14th century |