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Durance vs Surance - What's the difference?

durance | surance |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between durance and surance

is that durance is (obsolete) endurance while surance is (obsolete) assurance.

As nouns the difference between durance and surance

is that durance is (obsolete) duration while surance is (obsolete) assurance.

durance

English

Noun

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  • (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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    surance

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) assurance
  • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)