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1. (n.) durance
incarceration or imprisonment (often used in the phrase durance vile).
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME duraunce duration < MF durance=dur(er) to last (< L; see endure ) +-ance -ance)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) durance
imprisonment (especially for a long time)
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) durance
continuance; duration. See Endurance
2. (noun) durance
imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak
3. (noun) durance
a stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting
4. (noun) durance
in modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. durance
a tributary of the Rhône, which, after a rapid course of 180 m., falls into that river by its left bank 3 m. below Avignon.
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