All 4 Uses of
continuance
in
Mansfield Park
- Everything was now in a regular train: theatre, actors, actresses, and dresses, were all getting forward; but though no other great impediments arose, Fanny found, before many days were past, that it was not all uninterrupted enjoyment to the party themselves, and that she had not to witness the continuance of such unanimity and delight as had been almost too much for her at first.
Chpt 18continuance = continuation
- Her opinion was sought as to the probable continuance of the open weather, but her answers were as short and indifferent as civility allowed.
Chpt 23
- …and last of all, and above all, recommending to us a compliance, a compromise, an acquiescence in the continuance of the sin, on the chance of a marriage which, thinking as I now thought of her brother, should rather be prevented than sought; all this together most grievously convinced me that I had never understood her before, and that, as far as…
Chpt 47 *
- After what had passed to wound and alienate the two families, the continuance of the Bertrams and Grants in such close neighbourhood would have been most distressing; but the absence of the latter, for some months purposely lengthened, ended very fortunately in the necessity, or at least the practicability, of a permanent removal.
Chpt 48
Definition:
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(continuance as in: continuance of the journey) the process of continuing; or the time or state during which something continues