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Continent
One of the main continuous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its shelf|continental shelves and the islands on them.
(RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam)
Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, now generally regarded as seven in number, each usually including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc.
A large contiguous landmass as opposed to its islands, peninsulas, and so forth; mainland. Also specifically, the World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa: see the Continent.
(RQ:Donne Devotions)
Any continuous tract or area of land; country, connected region.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
Container, vessel, something that holds or contains something else.
The principal or essential points of something viewed collectively: sum, summary, substance.
Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate respect to one’s bodily needs or passions, especially sex.
(RQ:Shakespeare Othello)
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Having voluntary control over one’s urination or defecation.
Not interrupted; connected; continuous, whether in time or space.
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(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
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(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1)
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)
Containing or capable of containing.
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(l), morally restrained
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