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What does continency mean?

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Noun
  1. Alternative form of continence
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Ay, but by your own virtue and continency that matter of fact is all his own doing.
The public morals are insecure till the family is chastely planted, the state guarded by the continency of its male members.
In the current study, tootling rates dropped rapidly after the group continency was withdrawn.
By continency verily are we bound up and brought back into One, whence we were dissipated into many.
It is difficult to believe that the free men deprived of women were all gifted with the virtue of continency.
The reason for this was and is that perfect continency for the love of God is an incentive to charity, and is certainly a particular source of spiritual fecundity in the world.

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