incontinency
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"You are charged with incontinency towards the king's highness," replied Suffolk sternly.
From Windsor Castle by William Harrison Ainsworth
The works of the temperate spirit and the works of incontinency are, I take it, diametrically opposed?
From The Memorabilia by Henry Graham Dakyns
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
What incontinency, you will say; and I say, What, indeed!
From The Forest Lovers by Maurice Henry Hewlett
The scene in which Pisanio gives Imogen his master's letter, accusing her of incontinency on the treacherous suggestions of Iachimo, is as touch-ing as it is possible for any thing to be: Pisanio.
From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
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