Usually means: Imprisonment or confinement; period duration.
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  1. durance: Merriam-Webster
  2. durance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. durance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. durance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. durance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Durance, durance: Wordnik
  7. durance: Wiktionary
  8. durance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. durance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. durance: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Durance, durance: Dictionary.com
  12. Durance (role-playing game), Durance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Durance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. durance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. durance: FreeDictionary.org
  16. durance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. durance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. durance: Rhymezone
  19. Durance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. durance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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  1. durance: Legal dictionary

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  1. Durance: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Durance)

▸ noun:  (archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Duration.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Endurance, durability.
▸ noun:  A left tributary of the Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Similar:
durance vile, emprisonment, prisonment, durancy, perduration, endurement, indurance, fortitude, sufferance, duress, more...

Opposite:
freedom, liberty, release

Types:
imprisonment, jail, custody, confinement, captivity, more...

Phrases:
durance vile, durance river, Erica Durance, more...

Adjectives:
such, perpetual, long, dark, vile, close, hard, short, honorable, piteous, honourable



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Similar:
durance vile, emprisonment, prisonment, durancy, perduration, endurement, indurance, fortitude, sufferance, duress, more...

Opposite:
freedom, liberty, release

Types:
imprisonment, jail, custody, confinement, captivity, more...

Phrases:
durance vile, durance river, Erica Durance, more...

Adjectives:
such, perpetual, long, dark, vile, close, hard, short, honorable, piteous, honourable



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