Associations to the word «Continency»

Wiktionary

CONTINENCY, noun. Alternative form of continence

Dictionary definition

CONTINENCY, noun. The exercise of self constraint in sexual matters.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope