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Continence vs Tucket - What's the difference?

continence | tucket |

As nouns the difference between continence and tucket

is that continence is the voluntary control of urination and defecation while tucket is a fanfare played on one or more trumpets.

continence

English

Noun

(-)
  • The voluntary control of urination and defecation.
  • Moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence.
  • * (seeCites)
  • * Dryden
    • He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, — a continence which is practiced by few writers.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Chastity is either abstinence or continence': abstinence is that of virgins or widows; ' continence , that of married persons.
  • Uninterrupted course; continuity.
    • (Ayliffe)

    Antonyms

    * incontinence

    Related terms

    * continent

    References

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    tucket

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A fanfare played on one or more trumpets.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let the trumpets sound / The tucket sonance and the note to mount.

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A steak; a collop.
    • (Jeremy Taylor)
    (Webster 1913)