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Webster 1913 Edition
Durance
Dur′ance
,Noun.
1.
Continuance; duration. See
Endurance
. [Archaic]
Of how short
durance
was this new-made state! Dryden.
2.
Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
“Durance vile.” Burns.
In
durance
, exile, Bedlam or the mint. Pope.
3.
(a)
A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.
(b)
In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.
Webster 1828 Edition
Durance
DURANCE
,Noun.
1.
Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody of the jailer.2.
Continuance; duration. [See Endurance.]Definition 2024
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See also: Durance
English
Noun
durance (countable and uncountable, plural durances)
- (obsolete) Duration.
- (obsolete) Endurance.
- XIX century, Gerard Manley Hopkins, No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief
- O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
- Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
- May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small
- Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep, [...]
- XIX century, Gerard Manley Hopkins, No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief
- (archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- What bootes it him from death to be unbownd, / To be captived in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despeyre without aleggeaunce!
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 373:
- the parson concurred, saying, the Lord forbid he should be instrumental in committing an innocent person to durance.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
Translations
(archaic) imprisonment
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