du·rance (d r  ns, 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 d  r re; see deu- in Indo-European roots.] |
durance [ˈdjʊərəns]
n Archaic or literary
1. imprisonment
2. duration
[from Old French, from durer to last, from Latin dūrāre]
Durance (French) [dyrɑ̃s]
n
(Placename) a river in S France, rising in the Alps and flowing generally southwest into the Rhône. Length: 304 km (189 miles)
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| Noun | 1. | 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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