continencia

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

continencia f (plural continencias)

  1. continence, self-control
    • 2015 October 12, “Lionel Messi, su papá y el banquillo de Gavá”, in El País‎[1]:
      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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