different between hindrance vs durance

English

Alternative forms

• hinderance (archaic)
• hindraunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From hinder +? -ance

Noun

hindrance (plural hindrances)

1. Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.

   High-heeled shoes may be fashionable, but they can also be a hindrance to walking.

2. The state or act of hindering something

   Your hindrance of this process will not be tolerated.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hindrance

Translations

Anagrams

• N-cadherin

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