All 4 Uses of
incontinence
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence.†
Chpt 13 (definition 1)
- Continence is the foe of heresy.†
Chpt 13 (definition 1) *
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- No man is an Island, entire of it selfe; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the Sea, _Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.†
Chpt 1 (definition 2)
- The British all had heard of them though because they had to study our Civil War much more than people did on the Continent.†
Chpt 30 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (incontinence) inability to control bodily bathroom functions; or inability or unwillingness to moderate other things (when not specified, often sexual behavior)
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More commonly, the word form contient is used to describe a very large land mass.