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Continence

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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(Latin: continere, to contain)

The virtue or strength of will by which man controls his bodily emotions, particularly those connected with sex; a form of the virtue of temperance; the state of one who controls the sex instinct.

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Entry for 'Continence'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​c/continence.html. 1910.
 
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