A rare or archaic variant spelling of continue or a French form meaning content or substance.
This appears to be either a misspelling, a very rare archaic variant, or a French word not standard in English. If French, related to contenu (content).
This word appears in almost no modern dictionaries—it may be a transcription error, an obsolete spelling, or a specialist French term. If it is real, it's a ghost word, a linguistic phantom that fascinates word historians.
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