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▪ I. during, vbl. n.|ˈdjʊərɪŋ|
[f. dure v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb dure: duration.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. iv. 99 (Camb. MS.) Yif they weere of lengere durynge. 1382Wyclif 1 Esdras iv. 40 Mageste of alle duringis aboue time [aevorum]. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 241 How shorte they [rychesse] be in during. a1661Fuller Worthies iii. (1662) 38 Long the during thereof.
2. Hardening; induration. In quot. attrib.
1804Hull Advertiser 30 June 2/3 A Bark-Mill, three Leather-houses, two During-shades.
▪ II. ˈduring, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That dures; lasting, continuing.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. x. (1495) 230 Fallynge euylles ben moost duringe and harde to heele. 1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 51 Nor canst thou..stop the trumpe, that sounds hir during fame. 1601Weever Mirr. Mart. D j, Marble..and during Adamant. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 226 Charity is a during and perpetual grace. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 15 Close-linked chains of during adamant.
▪ III. during, pres. pple. and prep. (conj.)|ˈdjʊərɪŋ|
Also 5 dewer-, 6 duering.
†1. The pres. pple. of dure v. = enduring, lasting, continuing, was used in Fr. and Eng. in a construction derived from the Latin ‘ablative absolute’; thus L. vita durante, OF. vie durant, Eng. life during, while life endured or endures.
c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 271 Sche was comoun to alle þat wolde haue here, xv. ȝere durynge. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. lxxxviii. 72 She neuer was seyn among folke hir lyf durynge. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xxxviii. 52 This sege durynge, ther were many skirmysshes. 1542–5Brinklow Lament. lf. 12, I..will continuallye, my lyfe duringe, praye vnto the euerlyuinge God.
The participle also often stood before the n., e.g. L. durante bello, F. durant la guerre, Eng. during the war; in which construction during came in the modern langs. to be treated as
2. prep. Throughout the whole continuance of; hence, in the course of, in the time of.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 283 (MS. Gg. 4. 27) Stedefaste wedewys durynge alle here lyuys. a1400–50Alexander 1118 In damaging of Darius durand [Dublin endurand] his lyfe. 14..Epiph. in Tundale's Vis. 103 This contynued duryng mony a yere. 1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 221 An annuitie of an. C. l. [{pstlg}100] duryng his lyfe. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xxii. 29 Al that which during our voyage was happened unto us. 1648Bury Wills (Camden) 203 Dureing the terme of her naturall life. 1670J. Smith Eng. Improv. Reviv'd 77 Trees may live during the world. 1678Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 49 Judge North, who supplies the Lord Chancelors place during his being sicke. 1754Hume Hist. Eng. (1812) I. iv. 281 During the course of seven hundred years. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxiii. 161 During the night the rain changed to snow. 1885Act 48 & 49 Vict. c. 58 §2 The hours during which the offices..shall be open.
†3. conj. While; until. (Also during that.) Obs. rare. [cf. F. durant que, pendant que.]
1595T. Bedingfield tr. Macchiavelli's Florentine Hist. 192 During that these matters..were handled in Toscana. 1653Cloria & Narcissus i. 308 To remaine..during a necessary conveniency might also be had for the repairing of her own ship. 1693Mem. Cnt. Teckely iv. 32 During the Christians and the Turks were seeking one another for fighting. |