Durance

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • 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).
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  • n. Duration.
  • n. Endurance.
  • n. Imprisonment; forced confinement.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Continuance; duration. See endurance.
  • n. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
  • n.
  • n. A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.
  • n. In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Duration; continuance; endurance.
  • n. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; involuntary confinement of any kind.
  • n. Any material supposed to be of remarkable durability, as buff-leather; especially, a strong cloth made to replace and partly to imitate buff-leather; a variety of tammy. Sometimes written durant, and also called ererlasting.
  • n. A kind of apple.
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  • n. imprisonment (especially for a long time)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    incarceration    captivity    imprisonment    immurement   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    imprisonment    duration    confinement   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    immurement    duress    emy    incarceration    tering   
     
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