durance🔊

(archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.

💬 Quotations

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

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

(obsolete) Duration.

(obsolete) Endurance, durability.

💬 Quotations

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

William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1

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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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