incontinency
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Now this is a mark of "incontinency" in pleasurable matters, and of "effeminacy" or "squeamishness" in unpleasant matters, according to Ethic. vii, 1.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Your grace may se whate a worke there is in London, howe the bisshoppe rageth for endyting of certayn curates of extorcion and incontinency the last yere in the warmoll quest.
From A Supplication for the Beggars by Simon Fish
"You are charged with incontinency towards the king's highness," replied Suffolk sternly.
From Windsor Castle by William Harrison Ainsworth
Harassed and chained down as he was, the councils of Anse, Clermont, Dijon, Autun, Poietiers, and Lyons were thundering against simony and incontinency.
From The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century by George Henry Miles
I false? thy conscience witness, Iachimo, Thou didst accuse him of incontinency, Thou then look’dst like a villain: now methinks, Thy favour’s good enough.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
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