Continuance /(?)/

Con·tin·u·ance

Continuance

n.
  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.
  3. A holding together; continuity. [Obs.]
  4. The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another. (Law)