Definition of "incontinency" [incontinency]

• Incontinence. (noun)

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• "One of the most frequently named of them is 'incontinency', which seems to refer to either premarital or extramarital sex."
• "Aristotle is said to have been guilty of great vanity in his clothes, of incontinency, and of unfaithfulness to his master,"
• "That, after all, incontinency is powerless to bring us to that realm of sweetness which some look upon579 as her peculiar province; it is not incontinency but self-control alone which has the passport to highest pleasures."