What does continently mean?
Continently means In a continent, chaste, moderate manner.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
In a continent, chaste, moderate manner.
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.
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.
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.
Use continently when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Continently means In a continent, chaste, moderate manner.
Common synonyms include chastely, moderately, temperately, becomingly.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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