Word Meanings - DURANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Continuance; duration. See Endurance. Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden. 2. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. "Durance vile." Burns. In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint. Pope. A stout

Additional info about word: DURANCE

1. Continuance; duration. See Endurance. Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden. 2. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. "Durance vile." Burns. In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint. Pope. A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting. Where didst thou buy this buff let me not live but I will give thee a good suit of durance. J. Webster. In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DURANCE)

• Imprisonment
• Restraint
• incarceration
• durance
• confinement

Related words: (words related to DURANCE)

• INCARCERATION
  1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
• IMPRISONMENT
  The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• RESTRAINT
  1. The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental. No man was altogether above the restrains of law, and no man altogether below
• DURANCE
  1. Continuance; duration. See Endurance. Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden. 2. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. "Durance vile." Burns. In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint. Pope. A stout
• PERDURANCE; PERDURATION
  Long continuance.
• REIMPRISONMENT
  The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.
• UNRESTRAINT
  Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
• INDURANCE
  See ENDURANCE
• SELF-RESTRAINT
  Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.
• ENDURANCE
  1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott. 2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under