单词 | incontinence |
释义 | incontinencen. 1. Want of continence or self-restraint; inability to contain or retain: a. With reference to the bodily appetites, esp. the sexual passion: Unchastity. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] incontinencec1384 unchastityc1384 adulteryc1405 bawdry1460 sensualities1477 incontinency1485 unchasteness1530 dishonesty1535 immorality?1566 inconstancy1581 inchastity1590 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. vii. 5 Eft turne ȝe aȝen in to the same thing, lest Sathanas tempte ȝou for ȝoure incontynence. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xiv. 161 Often tyme..the gode Dyamande lesethe his vertue, be synne and for Incontynence of him that berethe it. 1533 T. More Apol. ix, in Wks. 866/1 I doe not allowe, but obhorre incontinence in sacred professed persones. 1630 P. Massinger Renegado iv. ii. sig. I2v Any Virgin..conuicted of corporall loosenesse, and incontinence. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 699 Such London is, by taste and wealth proclaim'd The fairest capital of all the world, By riot and incontinence the worst. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vi. 169 Handsome youths are admonished by Pindar to beware of lawlessness and shun incontinence. b. In general sense. (Const. of.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun] unimetec888 unmethelOE overdeeda1200 unmetheshipa1250 outragec1325 ragec1330 reveriec1350 delavinessc1380 recolagea1400 dissolutionc1400 superfluityc1405 wantonness1448 intemperancy1532 intemperacy?1541 untemperance?1541 intemperance1547 excess1552 immoderateness1569 intemperateness1571 unbridledness1571 inordinateness1577 untemperateness1578 dissoluteness1580 acrasia1590 acrasy1590 intemperature1602 inordination1615 inordinancya1617 immoderation1640 extravagancy1651 debauch1672 extravagance1676 incontinency1715 extravaganza1754 incontinence1836 unmeasuredness1864 1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet II. 163 He who labours under an incontinence of speech, seldom gets the better of his complaint. 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. v. 202 His laughter would follow his tears with a happy incontinence. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xi. iii. 60 [They] do not waste themselves by incontinence of tongue. 1881 T. Martin tr. Horace Odes i. xviii Transparent as crystal, that shows In its babbling incontinence all that it knows. 2. Pathology. Lack of voluntary control over urination or defecation, esp. incontinence of urine (= Latin incontinentia urinæ, in Pliny.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > incontinence incontinence1754 incontinency1769 1754–64 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. 162 The woman commonly labours under an incontinence of urine. 1874 W. H. Van Buren & E. L. Keyes Pract. Treat. Surg. Dis. Genito-urinary Organs 229 Incontinence, like retention, is a symptom, and not a disease. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1384 |
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