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Continuation   /kəntˌɪnjuˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Continuation

noun
1.
The act of continuing an activity without interruption.  Synonym: continuance.
2.
A part added to a book or play that continues and extends it.  Synonym: sequel.
3.
A Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction.  Synonyms: good continuation, law of continuation.
4.
The consequence of being lengthened in duration.  Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation, protraction.



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"Continuation" Quotes from Famous Books



... its members, to each according to the measure of his living faith. This inward invisible Christ belongs to all ages and all times and lands."[32] The Church, in its true life and power, is thus for him a continuation of the apostolic type. He had no interest in the formation of a sectarian denomination, and he was fundamentally averse to a State-Church system. The true Church community can be identified with no temporal, empirical organization—whether established or separatist. ...
— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones
 
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... arises: What tones are chosen to provide material for this continuation of the rhythm? They are usually derived from the cadence-chord, or its auxiliary embellishments; and the methods employed ...
— Lessons in Music Form - A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and - Designs Employed in Musical Composition • Percy Goetschius
 
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... on our side. Further, the ending year has revealed a certain incapacity in the Republican party's leaders, at least its official leaders, to administer the country and to grasp the events. If the new year shall be only the continuation of the faults, the mistakes, and the incapacities prevailing during 1861, then the worst is ...
— Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 • Adam Gurowski
 
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... into contempt with the people at large, who would never continue long attached to a Church, the ministers of which did not stand up for it, and likewise cause their own brethren, who had a clearer notion of things, to be ashamed of belonging to it. I speak advisedly," said he, in continuation; "there is ...
— Isopel Berners - The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 • George Borrow
 
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... complement of creative action, unites man with the globe which he inhabits, and, in the cultivation of the domain in which Providence has placed us, which thus becomes in part our work, gives us a conception of the principle and end of all things. If, then, humanity is not God, it is a continuation of God; or, if a different phraseology be preferred, that which humanity does today by design is the same thing that it began by instinct, and which Nature seems to accomplish by necessity. In all these cases, and whichever opinion we may choose, one thing remains ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon
 
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