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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Duration

Du·ra′tion, n. [OF. duration. See Dure.] The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.

It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay.

Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.