Definition
A long prison sentence.
In Context
- "In durance vile here must I wake and weep"
- "Two of the tribe were captured and put in irons, Binmook and Tommy, whose photographs, taken when in durance vile, I have by me still."
- "That is, Messrs Brown and Hinton would have been in durance vile before the issue could be litigated: the High Court does not give advisory decisions."