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durance

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du·rance  (drns, dyr-)
n.
Confinement or restraint by force; imprisonment: "There should be a durance vile for justices who use an argument as weak as the one the majority used" (George F. Will).
[Middle English duraunce, duration, from Old French durance, from durer, to last, from Latin drre; see deu- in Indo-European roots.]
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Noun1.durance - imprisonment (especially for a long time)
captivity, immurement, incarceration, imprisonment - the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"


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Whether a natural love of justice, or the extraordinary comeliness of Jones, had wrought on Susan to make the discovery, I will not determine; but such were the effects of her evidence, that the magistrate, throwing himself back in his chair, declared that the matter was now altogether as clear on the side of the prisoner as it had before been against him: with which the parson concurred, saying, the Lord forbid he should be instrumental in committing an innocent person to durance.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
Will followed her at a little distance, and leaned against the tall back of a leather chair, on which he ventured now to lay his hat and gloves, and free himself from the intolerable durance of formality to which he had been for the first time condemned in Dorothea's presence.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
On his right was Cora in a durance similar to his own, pale and agitated, but with an eye whose steady look still read the proceedings of their enemies.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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