durance
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Is durance a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.Examples: "What bootes it him from death to be unbownd, / To be captived in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despeyre without aleggeaunce!"; "the parson concurred, saying, the Lord forbid he should be instrumental in committing an innocent person to durance."archaiccountableuncountable
2. (obsolete) Duration.countableobsoleteuncountable
3. (obsolete) Endurance, durability.Examples: "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?"; "O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall / Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap / May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small / Durance deal with that steep or deep."countableobsoleteuncountable
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