Definition of "durance" [dur•ance]

• Confinement or restraint by force; imprisonment: "There should be a durance vile for justices who use an argument as weak as the one the majority used” ( George F. Will). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "As Murk languishes in durance vile, someone decides to change the game."
• "This means an approximately 90% reduction in durance vile and also in repetitive injuries."
• "Not only are you willing to let a guilty terrorist sit in durance vile with no assurance that her commission would ever convene, you stated baldly that the only reason to convene such a commission would be to render a death sentence."