Meaning of Durance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Imprisonment; forced confinement.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. A left tributary of the Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
3. Duration.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. Endurance, durability.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

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Examples

“What bootes it him from death to be unbownd, / To be captived in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despeyre without aleggeaunce!”

“the parson concurred, saying, the Lord forbid he should be instrumental in committing an innocent person to durance.”

“Fal. Thou ſay'ſt true Lad: is not my Hoſteſſe of the Tauerne a moſt ſweet Wench? / Prin. As is the hony, my old Lad of the Caſtle: and is not a Buffe Ierkin a moſt ſweet robe of durance?”

“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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