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Terms vs Durance - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and durance

is that terms is while durance is (obsolete) duration.

terms

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    durance

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    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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