Confinement vs Durance - What's the difference?
confinement | durance | Related terms |
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 .
(obsolete) Duration.
(obsolete) Endurance.
* XIX century , Gerard Manley Hopkins,
(archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 373:
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
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(-)- 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, [...]
- 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 .