incontinency
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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
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 Aquinas Thomas
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
What had he to do with gluttony, drunkenness, pride, wantonness, incontinency, and the rest of my ware?
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr
William James, for incontinency, was ſentenced to be ſet in the bilboes at Boſton and Salem, and bound in 20l.
From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
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