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Indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures
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incontinence
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "inability to restrain sexual desire, sexual immorality," later "inability to keep to a religious rule" (early 15c.), from Old French incontinence "lack of abstinence, unchastity" (12c.) or directly from Latin incontinentia "greediness; incontinence," ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Incontinence or Incontinent may refer to: Fecal incontinence , the involuntary excretion of bowel contents Urinary incontinence , the involuntary excretion of urine Lack of moderation or self-control, especially related to sexual desire - see Incontinence ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated English) Lack of self-restraint, an inability to control oneself; unchastity. 2 (context medicine English) The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. involuntary urination or defecation [syn: incontinency ] indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures [syn: dissoluteness , self-gratification ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incontinence \In*con"ti*nence\, Incontinency \In*con"ti*nen*cy\, n. [L. incontinentia: cf. F. incontinence.] Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; lack of continence; failure to restrain ...
Usage examples of incontinence.
While he was angry therefore with the incontinence of Jones, he was no less pleased with the honour and honesty of his self-accusation.
Bible, a bloodsoaked major's cockade crowning a sightless eyeball and the faintly heaving breasts of despoiled nudity faded away before the sparkling overtures of a sometime movie star pursuing the active life with a tennis racket no longer hampered by incontinence, and they woke to the clatter of glassware on a kitchen tray.
The ostensible England was making the empire sick with its incontinences, its ignorances, its ferocities, its panics, and its endless and intolerable blarings of Allied national anthems in season and out.
In the exercise of this power, the censures of the Christian church were chiefly directed against scandalous sinners, and particularly those who were guilty of murder, of fraud, or of incontinence.
There are colostomy bags and projectile vomiting and cirrhotic discharges and missing limbs and misshapen heads and incontinence and Kaposi's Sarcoma and suppurating sores and all different levels of enfeeblement and impulse-control-deficit and damage.
There was the Bay of Fraud, the Bay of Incontinence, the Bay of Sorrow, the Bay of Equivocations, and Bays of Forgetfulness, Hunger, Disease, Combat, and Injustice.
I remember going to the supermarket for the first time and being genuinely impressed to find that it stocked no fewer than eighteen varieties of incontinence diaper.
Used for impotence in males, nocturnal emissions, gonorrhoea, gleet and incontinence of urine.
You can look forward to osteoporosis, urinary incontinence, and my favorite, genital atrophy.