| 单词 | in durance vile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin durance vile 5. Forced confinement, imprisonment; constraint. Now esp. in in durance vile. Cf. duress n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] prisonOE bonda1225 beclosing?c1225 narrowth?c1225 holdc1330 banda1400 festinance1426 duressc1430 enclosingc1440 closeness1530 durancea1535 closure1592 reclusedness1613 confinement1646 immurement1736 immuration1895 hack1899 prisonment1900 lockdown1973 a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 49/2 Those that haue not letted to put them in duresse with out colour, wil let as lytle to procure their distruccion without cause. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 82 His mother, which as yet was in durance in Englande. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. v. 34 Thy Dol..is in base durance, and contagious prison. View more context for this quotation 1637 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 62 St. Paul being at durance in Rome. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 238 Him they release from durance base. 1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 19 This Royal servitude and vile durance. 1791 J. Mackintosh Vindiciæ Gallicæ Introd. p. xiii For the delivery of the peerless and immaculate Antoinetta..from the durance vile in which she has so long been immured in the Thuilleries. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 771 A Workhouse!..In durance vile here must I wake and weep. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. 246 The writer, who..was in durance for stealing a pair of mules. < as lemmas |
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