continuance in action
Roget category 143
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#143.
Continuance in action
noun
continuance,
continuation —
run —
perpetuation,
prolongation —
persistence
etc.
(perseverance)
604.1;
repetition
etc.
104.
verb
continue,
persist —
go on,
jog on,
keep on,
run on,
hold on —
abide,
keep,
pursue,
stick to its course,
take its course,
maintain its course —
carry on,
keep up.
sustain,
uphold,
hold up,
keep on foot —
follow up,
perpetuate —
maintain —
preserve
etc.
604.1;
harp upon
etc.
(repeat)
104.
keep going,
keep alive,
keep the pot boiling,
keep up the ball,
keep up the good work —
die in harness,
die with one's boots on —
hold on the even tenor of one's way,
pursue the even tenor of one's way.
let be —
stare super antiquas vias [Lat.] —
quieta non movere [Lat.] —
let things take their course —
stare decisis
(Jurisprudence).
adjective
continuing
etc.
v. —
uninterrupted,
unintermitting†,
unvarying,
unshifting† —
unreversed†,
unstopped,
unrevoked,
unvaried —
sustained —
undying
etc.
(perpetual)
112 —
inconvertible.
interjection
keep it up!,
go to it!,
right away!,
right on!,
attaboy!,
phrase
nolumus leges Angliae mutari [Lat.] —
vestigia nulla retrorsum [Lat.]
[Horace];
labitur et albetur
[Horace].
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