单词 | of some continuance |
释义 | > as lemmasof some continuance c. adjectival phrase of long continuance ( of short continuance, of some continuance, of any continuance, etc.) continuance. ΚΠ 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 296 Their amitie and vnion..cannot be of long continuance. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. iv. 1 We shall first dispatch those which were of shortest continuance. 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 77 This Year (1719) we had no Frost or Snow of any Continuance in England. 1784 W. Cowper Let. 22 Feb. (1981) II. 214 A frost of nine weeks' continuance. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 218 The strain is of short continuance. 1893 N.E.D. at Continuance Mod. Is the rain likely to be of any continuance? < as lemmas |
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