Associations to the word «Durance»

Wiktionary

DURANCE, noun. (obsolete) Duration.
DURANCE, noun. (obsolete) Endurance.
DURANCE, noun. (archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
DURANCE VILE, noun. (obsolete) A long prison sentence.

Dictionary definition

DURANCE, noun. Imprisonment (especially for a long time).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne