ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Continently

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Continently is an adverb meaning In a continent, chaste, moderate manner.

Meaning

In a continent, chaste, moderate manner.

More Meanings

  1. continuously

Example Sentences

I swear at my life's perversities with only a fatigued contempt due partly to bodily fragileness but mostly to a cold continently reckless mood which is clasped on me like a strong stupefied devil-fish.
All this time your humble correspondent was continently waiting in the grand corridor leading from the Commons to the Lords, which, however, is by far the best place for the curious spectator at this stage of the proceedings.
A violent explosion shook the air, and a spout of water, steam, mud, and shattered metal shot far up into the sky. As the camera of the Heat-Ray hit the water, the latter had continently flashed into steam. In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore, but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend up-stream.

Synonyms for continently

Depending on context, synonyms include chastely, moderately, temperately, becomingly, correctly, decently.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include temperedly, moderately, attemperately, clemently, temperately, mellowly.

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