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If a person is incontinent, they cannot control when liquid waste (urine, wee) or solid waste (poo) leaves their body. It is the describing-word that matches incontinence. Doctors may say incontinent of urine. Same medical, slightly formal feel. People who care for others use it when they talk about helping someone without making them feel small. Though actually, in very old English, incontinent could also mean “unable to control your wants,” and there was even an old adverb incontinent meaning “at once, immediately.” You may meet those in old books. In the English people speak now, incontinent means this body problem.
組成From Middle English incontinent, from Old French incontinent, from Latin incontinens, from in- (“not”) + continens (“holding back, in control”). The medical adjective and that old “immediately” adverb share this history, which is why one spelling has done more than one job.
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- incontinencethe noun: the body problem itself
- continencecontrol over the body (and, in older English, over desire)
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
incontinentadj/ɪŋˈkɒntɪnənt/
- 1
Unable to contain or retain.
- 2
Plagued by incontinence; unable to retain natural discharges or evacuations, most commonly of urine or feces.
- About 90% of all koalas have chlamydia... which makes them incontinent, so they spend all day pissing themselves.
- The male body, opened and bleeding, can assume the shameful attributes of the incontinent female body as both cause of and justification for its evident vulnerability and defeat.
- 3
Lacking moral or sexual restraint, moderation or self-control, especially of sexual desire.
- 4
Unrestrained or unceasing.
- an incontinent river of pure water
- [Jesus] was borne in Bethlem a City of Juda: where incontinent by the glorification of the Angels, the agnition of the Shepeherds, the veneration of the wiſe men, the prophecy of holy Simeon, and the admiration of the Doctours, he was had in honour.
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Immediate; without delay.
incontinentadv/ɪŋˈkɒntɪnənt/
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obsoleteImmediately, forthwith.
- "As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none."
- He says he will return incontinent:
incontinentnoun/ɪŋˈkɒntɪnənt/
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obsoleteOne who is unchaste.
- O, old Incontinent, dost not thou shame
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