different between confinement vs durance

English

Etymology

From French confinement; synchronically analyzable as confine +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?fa?nm?nt/
• Hyphenation: con?fine?ment

Noun

confinement (countable and uncountable, plural confinements)

1. The act of confining or the state of being confined.
2. (dated) Lying-in, time of giving birth.

   Synonyms: labour, birthing
3. lockdown

Translations

Further reading

• “confinement”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

French

Etymology

From confiner +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.fin.m??/

Noun

confinement m (plural confinements)

1. confinement
2. The act of quarantining, of putting into quarantine.

   Synonym: mise en quarantaine

3. quarantine
4. lockdown

5. containment

Synonyms

• déconfinement

See also

• isolement

Further reading

• “confinement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Old French durance, from durer (“to last”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?????ns/, /?dj????ns/

Noun

durance (countable and uncountable, plural durances)

1. (obsolete) Duration.
2. (obsolete) Endurance.
3. (archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:

     What bootes it him from death to be unbownd, / To be captived in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despeyre without aleggeaunce!

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 373:

     the parson concurred, saying, the Lord forbid he should be instrumental in committing an innocent person to durance.

Translations

Anagrams

• dauncer, unarced, uncared, unraced

Old French

Etymology

durer +? -ance.

Noun

durance f (oblique plural durances, nominative singular durance, nominative plural durances)

1. duration (length with respect to time)
   • circa 1289, Jacques d'Amiens, L'art d'amours

     Si prent on tost tele acointance

     Qui puet avoir peu de durance