Both Uses of
continuity
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- But, my dear Mercy, it snaps the continuity of existence.†
Chpt 5 *continuity = consistency
- It intensified her consciousness of error to a practical despair; the break of continuity between her earlier and present existence, which she had hoped for, had not, after all, taken place.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(continuity) consistency or lacking interruption
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
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