Roget's Thesaurus

#143. Continuance in action

Nouns

continuance, continuation; run; perpetuation, prolongation; persistence etc. (perseverance) 604a; repetition etc. 104.

Verbs

continue, persist; go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on; abide, keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course, maintain its course; carry on, keep up. sustain, uphold, hold up, keep on foot; follow up, perpetuate; maintain; preserve etc. 604a; harp upon etc. (repeat) 104. keep going, keep alive, keep the pot boiling, keep up the ball, keep up the good work; die in harness, die with one's boots on; hold on the even tenor of one's way, pursue the even tenor of one's way. let be; stare super antiquas vias [Lat.]; quieta non movere [Lat.]; let things take their course; stare decisis (Jurisprudence).

Adjectives

continuing etc. v.; uninterrupted, unintermitting, unvarying, unshifting; unreversed, unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried; sustained; undying etc. (perpetual) 112; inconvertible.

Interjections

keep it up!, go to it!, right away!, right on!, attaboy!,

Phrases

nolumus leges Angliae mutari [Lat.]; vestigia nulla retrorsum [Lat.] [Horace]; labitur et albetur [Horace].