Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-CON'TIN-ENCE, or IN-CON'TIN-EN-CY
IN-CON-TIG'U-OUS-LYIN-CON'TIN-ENT
IN-CON'TIN-ENCE, or IN-CON'TIN-EN-CY, n. [L. incontinentia; Fr. incontinence. See Continence.]
- Want of restraint of the passions or appetites; free or uncontrolled indulgence of the passions or appetites, as of anger. Gillies' Aristotle.
- Want of restraint of the sexual appetite; free or illegal indulgence of lust; lewdness; used of either sex, but appropriately of the male sex. Incontinence in men is the same as unchastity in women.
- Among physicians, the inability of any of the animal organs to restrain discharges of their contents, so that the discharges are involuntary.
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