Con*tin"u*ance (?), n. [OF.
continuance.] 1. A holding on, or
remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition,
habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration;
stay.
Great plagues, and of long continuance.
Deut. xxviii. 59.
Patient continuance in well-doing.
Rom. ii. 7.
2. Uninterrupted succession;
continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation;
propagation.
The brute immediately regards his own preservation
or the continuance of his species.
Addison.
3. A holding together; continuity.
[Obs.] Bacon.
4. (Law) (a) The
adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from
one stated term of a court, to another. (b)
The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the
record.
