durance
See also: Durance
English
Etymology
From Old French durance, from durer (“to last”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒʊəɹəns/, /ˈdjʊəɹəns/
Noun
durance (countable and uncountable, plural durances)
- (obsolete) Duration.
- (obsolete) Endurance.
- 1885–1887, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “[Poem 41]”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, OCLC 5093462, stanza 2, page 63:
- 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.
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- (archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- 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.
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Derived terms
- durance vile
Translations
(archaic) imprisonment
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Anagrams
- dauncer, unarced, uncared, unraced
Old French
Etymology
durer + -ance.
Noun
durance f (oblique plural durances, nominative singular durance, nominative plural durances)
- duration (length with respect to time)
- circa 1289, Jacques d'Amiens, L'art d'amours
- Si prent on tost tele acointance
- Qui puet avoir peu de durance
- circa 1289, Jacques d'Amiens, L'art d'amours