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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kontiˈnenθja/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /kontiˈnensja/
- Rhymes: -enθja
- Rhymes: -ensja
- Syllabification: con‧ti‧nen‧cia
Noun
continencia f (plural continencias)
- continence, self-control
2015 October 12, “Lionel Messi, su papá y el banquillo de Gavá”, in El País:A fuerza de teorías conspiratorias, nacionalismos de vía estrecha, laberintos societarios para engañar a la Hacienda pública y mensajes simples de catecismo, el ámbito del fútbol se ha convertido en una tundra inhóspita vedada para la racionalidad y la continencia verbal.- By dint of conspiracy theories, narrow-track nationalisms, corporate mazes to deceive the Public Treasury and simple catechism messages, the field of soccer has become an inhospitable tundra forbidden for rationality and verbal continence.
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