Crossword-Solution: DURANCE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Durance | n. | Continuance; duration. See Endurance. |
| Durance | n. | Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. |
| Durance | n. | A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting. |
| Durance | n. | In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DURANCE | anagram | UNCARED |
We have 8 clues for the answer “DURANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| COTTIAN Alps river | 1 answer |
| Imprisonment, old style. | 1 answer |
| Long-continued imprisonment. | 1 answer |
| ALPES-de-Haute-Provence river | 2 answers |
| RHONE River tributary | 10 answers |
| duress | 11 answers |
| FRENCH river | 57 answers |
| imprisonment | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DURANCE (5)
Are they not exactly like a bald little tinker who has just got out of durance and come into a fortune; he takes a bath and puts on a new coat, and is decked out as a bridegroom going to marry his master's daughter, who is left poor and desolate? A most exact parallel.
Only when I have kept myself in durance on purpose to leave you an open field, don’t, by way of thanking me, come and call me an idiot.” “Oh, you claim then that you have made sacrifices?” “Several! You have never suspected it?” “If I had, do you suppose I would have allowed it?” cried Roderick.
Obstinate drunks who had done nothing but lie on the ground and kick their feet in the air, would get up like birds, serpent-charmed, to go with him to durance vile.
And now, grown bolder by success and impunity, they no longer confined their depredations to property, but began to seize the persons of their distinguished neighbours, knights and ladies, and hold them in durance, the misery of which was heightened by all manner of indignity, until they were redeemed by their friends, at an exorbitant ransom.
Theriere,” replied the skipper, “I'll leave the matter entirely in your hands--you can do what you want with the fellow; it's you as had your face punched.” Theriere returned immediately to the forecastle, from which he presently emerged with the erstwhile recalcitrant Byrne, and for two days the latter languished in durance vile, and that was the end of the episode, though its effects were manifold.
Quotes with DURANCE (2)
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting? Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief-woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing — Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling-ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief'.O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fath…
In durance vile here must I wake and weep And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1960–1966).