Contain (Hastings' Dictionary)

1 Co 7" if they cannot c, let them marry ' (KV ' if they have not continency,' ijKpa- Tei'oiMii, fr. iv, Kpdros powers' have self-control'; it is tr^ ' be temperate ' 9^). Cf. Young, Paraphr. Job (1719), 'Then Job contained no more; but curs'd his fate ' ; and for the meaning here. Swift, Letters (1710), 'No wonder she married when she was so ill at containing.' Wyclif's tr. (after the Vulg. si nnn se continent) is, ' For if thei con- teynen not hem silf, or ben not chast, weddid be thei.' J.

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