different between custody vs durance

English

Etymology

From Latin custodia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custos (“a keeper, watchman, guard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?di?/ (Estuary English)
• Homophone: custardy (in some dialects)

Noun

custody (usually uncountable, plural custodies)

1. The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.

   The court awarded custody to the child's father.

2. Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.

   I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.

3. The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.

   He was mistreated while in police custody.

4. (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.

   The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.

Derived terms

Related terms

• custodial
• custodian

Translations

Further reading

• custody in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• custody in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• custody at OneLook Dictionary Search

Further reading

• Custódia [1], Priberam Dictionary]

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