CONTINUANCE

continuance. Continuance, n. duration, perserverance, abode

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Con‐tin″u‐ance (?), n. [[OF. continuance.]] 1. 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. 2. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation.
The brute immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. Addison. 3. 3. A holding together; continuity. Bacon.
4. 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.