| Concept: | Continuance in action. |
| Category: | 1. SIMPLE CHANGE |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
continuance, continuation; run; perpetuation, prolongation; persistence (perserverance); repetition.
-verbs
continue, persist; go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on; abide, keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course, maintain its course; carry on, keep up., sustain, uphold, hold up, keep on foot; follow up, perpetuate; maintain; preserve. [more]; harp upon (repeat)., keep going, keep alive, keep the pot boiling, keep up the ball, keep up the good work; die in harness, die with one's boots on; hold on the even tenor of one's way, pursue the even tenor of one's way., let be; stare super antiquas vias; quieta non movere; let things take their course; stare decisis [jurisprudence].
-adjectives
continuing; uninterrupted, unintermitting, unvarying, unshifting; unreversed, unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried; sustained; undying (perpetual); inconvertible.
-phrases
nolumus leges Angliae mutari ["We do not wish the laws of England to be changed" (Latin)]; vestigia nulla retrorsum [Horace. "No tracks (going) backwards" (Latin)];
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Antonyms: |
cessation |
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