continuance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of continuing an activity without interruption
    continuation.
  2. noun the period of time during which something continues
    duration.
  3. noun the property of enduring or continuing in time
    duration.

WordNet

Con*tin"u*ance noun
Etymology
OF. continuance.
Definitions
  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 continuence. Deut. xxviii. 59.
    Patient continuance i well-doing. Rom. ii. 7.
  2. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewell; perpetuation; propagation.
    The brute immedistely regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. Addison.
  3. A holding together; continuity. Obs. Bacon.
  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 adjuornment and the grounds thereof on the record.

Webster 1913