Continences is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 378 anagrams from letters in continences (cceeinnnost).
First recorded in 1350-1400; Middle English word from Latin word continentia. See continent, -ence
The high chiefs were an exception to the general rule of continence.
The Method of continence, with the argument for and against the same.
The lesson of history, then, is that continence is essential to the progress of the race.
That continence and celibacy were wrong, as leading to the worst scandals; 3.
A goddess would not advise the breach of a religious vow of continence.
This very laudation of continence is itself an emphasis upon sex.
But, indeed, continence had at first no connection with morals.
A woman's virtue is her continence, and a man's virtues are truthfulness and courage.
She bore her husband five children at once and then took a vow of continence.
The continence which the Church inculcated was not otherwise new.
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