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One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.

Continuance during the day. [Obs.]

Of long continuance; lasting. [R.] Milton.

inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden. Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance. Hooker.

The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and…

In a lasting manner; with long continuance.

Continuance; duration. See Endurance. [Archaic] Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden.

The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.

A fever of one day's continuance only.

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock.

A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.

with. Macaulay. -- To hold off, to keep at a distance. -- To hold on, to hold in being, continuance or position; as, to hold a rider on. -- To hold one's day, to keep one's appointment. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To hold one's own. (a) To keep good one's present condition absolutely or relatively; not to fall off, or to lo…

Hence, the delay or continuance of a suit.

The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness. Dr. T. Dwight.

The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance. B. Jonson.

Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error. An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to contract more. A. Tucker.…

Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound. Shak.

Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks. For not to irksome toil, but to delight, He made us. Milton.

Continuance; endurance. Locke.