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durances

durances is the plural of durance.

Meaning of durance

Noun

durance (countable and uncountable, plural durances)

  1. (archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
    • What bootes it him from death to be unbownd, / To be captived in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despeyre without aleggeaunce!1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) Duration.
  3. (obsolete) Endurance, durability.
    • Fal. Thou ſay'ſt true Lad: is not my Hoſteſſe of the Tauerne a moſt ſweet Wench? / Prin. As is the hony, my old Lad of the Caſtle: and is not a Buffe Ierkin a moſt ſweet robe of durance?c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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Questions about durances

What is durances the plural of?
Durances is the plural of durance.

Words near durances in the dictionary

  1. duramycins
  2. Duran
  3. Duranbah
  4. durance
  5. durance vile
  6. durances
  7. Durancian
  8. durancy
  9. Durand
  10. Durand Line
  11. Durand-Kerner method

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