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incontinent
c.1380, "wanting in self restraint," from O.Fr.
incontinent,
from L.
incontinentem,
from
in-
"not" +
continent
(see
continent
). Originally chiefly of sexual appetites; sense of "unable to control bowels or bladder" first attested 1828.
