continent

Forms

1.One of the main contiguous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its continental shelves and the islands on them.
2.Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc; namely, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica.
3.A large connected expanse of something in general.
4.An Encratite.

1.Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one’s bodily needs or passions, especially sex.
- Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.
- Their strength was the strength of men geographically beyond temptation: the poverty of Arabia made them simple, continent, enduring.
- A celibate himself, he was of the opinion that marriage was something of a concession to human frailty, to save from fornication those who could not be continent, so it was better to marry than to burn with lust.
2.Having voluntary control over one’s urination or defecation.

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Borrowed from Latin continens, noun use of present participle of continēre (“to contain”).