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Confinement vs Durance - What's the difference?

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Confinement is a related term of durance.


As nouns the difference between confinement and durance

is that confinement is the act of confining or the state of being confined while durance is (obsolete) duration.

confinement

English

Noun

  • the act of confining or the state of being confined
  • lying-in, time of giving birth
  • *1913 , DH Lawrence,
  • *:At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement .

    • durance

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Duration.
  • (obsolete) Endurance.
  • * XIX century , Gerard Manley Hopkins,
    • 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. Here! creep, [...]
  • (archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
    • What bootes it him from death to be unbownd, / To be captived in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despeyre without aleggeaunce!
  • * 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 373:
    • the parson concurred, saying, the Lord forbid he should be instrumental in committing an innocent person to durance .

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