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Continuing   /kəntˈɪnjuɪŋ/   Listen
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Continue  v. t.  
1.
To unite; to connect. (Obs.) "the use of the navel is to continue the infant unto the mother."
2.
To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not. "O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee." "You know how to make yourself happy by only continuing such a life as you have been long accustomed to lead."
3.
To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length. "A bridge of wond'rous length, From hell continued, reaching th' utmost orb of this frail world."
4.
To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live. "And how shall we continue Claudio."


Continue  v. i.  (past & past part. continued; pres. part. continuing)  
1.
To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay. "Here to continue, and build up here A growing empire." "They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat."
2.
To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last. "But now thy kingdom shall not continue."
3.
To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance. "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed."
Synonyms: To persevere; persist. See Persevere.





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"Continuing" Quotes from Famous Books



... any bank; nor what perhaps would have been more in character, hoards of gold in any stocking. Their mode of life was simple, and more like that of yeomen than squires. Indeed Squire Hamley, by continuing the primitive manners and customs of his forefathers, the squires of the eighteenth century, did live more as a yeoman, when such a class existed, than as a squire of this generation. There was a dignity in this quiet conservatism that gained him an immense amount of respect both from high and ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... to cover and disguise his retreat from Trenton, had ordered a line of fires to be lighted up in front of his camp. These not only served to give an appearance of going to rest, and continuing that deception, but they effectually concealed from the British whatever was acting behind them, for flame can no more be seen through than a wall, and in his situation, it may with some propriety ...
— A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up • Thomas Paine
... this generation pay its debt to the past by continuing this great work until the last vestige of woman's subjection shall be erased from our creeds and codes and constitutions. Then the united thought of man and woman will inaugurate a pure religion, a just government, a happy home and a civilization in which ignorance, ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
... is also more firmly rooted in history; for if Moses did anything at all, he certainly founded the sanctuary at Kadesh and the torah there, which the priests of the ark carried on after him, thus continuing the thread of the history of Israel, which was taken up again in power by the monarchy. The prophets only appeared among the Hebrews from the time of Samuel onwards, but the seers were older than Moses, and can scarcely have had such a close ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen
... night, and arose much refreshed by her slumbers. The storm of the day would not have detained her from continuing her journey; but the warm and truthful appeal of the woman, who felt the need of such a soul as Truth possessed with whom to exchange thoughts, induced her to remain that day, and many others, which slipped away so happily, and ...
— Allegories of Life • Mrs. J. S. Adams


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