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Webster 1913 Edition
Incontinency
{
In-con′ti-nence
,In-con′ti-nen-cy
, }Noun.
[L.
incontinentia
: cf. F. incontinence
.] 1.
Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; lack of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness.
That Satan tempt you not for your
incontinency
. 1 Cor. vii. 5.
From the rash hand of bold
incontinence
. Milton.
2.
(Med.)
The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, especially urination, or defecation, so that the discharges are involuntary;
as,
. incontinence
of urine