All 3 Uses of
continuance
in
The Scarlet Letter
- The accidents of my life have often afforded me this advantage, but never with more fulness and variety than during my continuance in office.†
Chpt Intr. *
- Suffice it here to say that a Custom-House officer of long continuance can hardly be a very praiseworthy or respectable personage, for many reasons; one of them, the tenure by which he holds his situation, and another, the very nature of his business, which—though, I trust, an honest one—is of such a sort that he does not share in the united effort of mankind.†
Chpt Intr.
- Not that the Surveyor brought the lesson home to himself, or admitted that he could be so utterly undone, either by continuance in office or ejectment.†
Chpt Intr.
Definition:
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(continuance as in: granted a continuance) law: postponement (delay) of a hearing, trial, or other scheduled court proceeding