[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CONTINUE; continuation, continuance; abiding.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., III. vii. (1495), 53. He lykenyth the soule racional to a cercle by cause of his perfeccion and contynuynge.
1643. Milton, Divorce, vi. (1851), 35. It is not the outward continuing of mariage that keepes whole that cov’nant.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 53. The ceasing or continuing the said Method of Sheathing.
