Both Uses of
continuance
in
The House of Mirth
- The morrow, rising on an apparent continuance of the same conditions, revealed nothing of what had occurred between the confronted pair.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- Lily felt at once that any tendency to be "stuck-up," to mark a sense of differences and distinctions, would be fatal to her continuance in the Gormer set.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(continuance as in: granted a continuance) law: postponement (delay) of a hearing, trial, or other scheduled court proceeding