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Meaning of durance vile | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A long prison sentence.

archaic, idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

“In durance vile here must I wake and weep”
“Two of the tribe were captured and put in irons, Binmook and Tommy, whose photographs, taken when in durance vile, I have by me still.”
“That is, Messrs Brown and Hinton would have been in durance vile before the issue could be litigated: the High Court does not give advisory decisions.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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