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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Continuance \Con*tin"u*ance\, n. [OF. continuance.]
     1. A holding on, or remaining in a particular state;
        permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.;
        perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.
  
              Great plagues, and of long continuance. --Deut.
                                                    xxviii. 59.
  
              Patient continuance in well-doing.    --Rom. ii. 7.
  
     2. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal;
        perpetuation; propagation.
  
              The brute immediately regards his own preservation
              or the continuance of his species.    --Addison.
  
     3. A holding together; continuity. [Obs.] --Bacon.
  
     4. (Law)
        (a) The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one
            day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.
        (b) The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof
            on the record.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  continuance
       n 1: the act of continuing an activity without interruption [syn:
             {continuation}] [ant: {discontinuance}, {discontinuance}]
       2: the period of time during which something continues [syn: {duration}]
       3: the property of enduring or continuing in time [syn: {duration}]

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