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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
durance/ˈdjʊər(ə)ns/

▶noun archaic imprisonment.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘continuance’): from OFr., from durer ‘to last’, from L. durare.

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