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Continuing

Continue \Con*tin"ue\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Continued; p. pr. & vb. n. Continuing.] [F. continuer, L. continuare, -tinuatum, to connect, continue, fr. continuus. See Continuous, and cf. Continuate.]

  1. To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

    Here to continue, and build up here A growing empire.
    --Milton.

    They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
    --Matt. xv. 3

  2. 2. To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.

    But now thy kingdom shall not continue.
    --1 Sam. xiii. 14.

  3. To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.

    If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed.
    --John viii. 31.

    Syn: To persevere; persist. See Persevere.

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continuing

vb. (present participle of continue English)

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continuing

adj. remaining in force or being carried on without letup; "the act provided a continuing annual appropriation"; "the continuing struggle to put food on the table"

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Usage examples of "continuing".

They were looking at each other, their eyes on a level, and when slowly she turned from him and walked towards the house, he took his doubled fist and beat it against his brow before continuing on his way.

But continuing on, Adams clearly implied that, in fact, he did believe Callender.

Azzam, by contrast, favored continuing to fight in Afghanistan until it had a true Islamist government.

Caterpillar also contributes to the continuing, growing antipathy between Alice and the creatures of Wonderland.

Nova Police can be compared to apomorphine, a regulating instance that need not continue and has no intention of continuing after its work is done.

These were Archaean rocks of the pre-Cambrian Shield which covered almost half Australia, outcropping in the Yilgarn Block, an area in the south-west that was about the size of Britain, and also in the smaller Pilbara Block, and continuing right through to the Centre, where the Shield was overlaid by sand and gravel.

The same doctors who listen to Continuing Medical Education audiocassettes on their car stereos, intent on keeping up with every innovation that might improve their outcome statistics, may regard cross-cultural medicine as a form of political bamboozlement, an assault on their rationality rather than a potentially lifesaving therapy.

Mansion, Ross Barnett was, incredibly, continuing the totally confused comic opera of rebellion.

After leaving Gawyn she had gone near enough to sense the channeling continuing inside, but left after one quick peek around the corner.

Almost his only consolation was a continuing series of interviews with Howard Ogden, who travelled up to see him regularly from his small office in Cheltenham from the middle of May until the end of July.

No book whose central characters are young chicks could be complete without a tribute to Pat Bateson, who was responsible, back in the 1960s, for my first blind date with what has become a continuing obsession, and who since then has continued to sharpen the experimental wits of one whose first training was, after all, in the most reductionist of the neurosciences.

Prussians made themselves masters of Cziscaberg, an eminence which commands the town, where the Austrians had a strong redoubt, continuing likewise to strengthen their works.

Did these sites indicate a wide variety of adaptations over vast areas of North and South America continuing until the firmly documented remains of the Nenana and Llano complexes were encountered in the archeological record?

He was a tiny man, under five feet, and though suffering the continuing ills of the hypochondriac he had translated all of Plato and become a living dictionary of ancient philosophies by translating the body of Egyptian wisdom before devouring the work of the sages from Aristotle through the Alexandrians, Confucianists, Zoroastrians.

Her pope tells her that it is the result of the continuing disfavor of Heaven, but I cannot believe it.