durance
- n imprisonment (especially for a long time)
- For whatever else he may have done in a long and lucrative careerand he has only twice gone to prison beforeSam at 57 is in durance vile for indulging his red-blooded .
- She had escaped, explained the white lady, from a fiend who had held her in durance with the help of hypnotic powers and a kitchen poker.
- Little men have the name of being compact with greater en- durance than big men.