Middle English Dictionary Entry
dūring prep.
Entry Info
| Forms | dūring prep. Also deuering. |
| Etymology | From ppl. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
For the duration of (someone's life, an event, a period of time), throughout, during; -- with obj. following or preceding; ~ the world, forever.
Associated quotations
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.125 : Durynge [vr. duyrynge] þat persecucioun Silvester..fliȝ out of þe citee.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.1014 : Duryng the metes space, The child stood.
- (1392) Will in Bk.Lond.E.210/11 : To þe powre Mesellis a serteyn A-weke duryng on ȝere.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.158 : I haue the power, duryng al my lyf, Vpon his propre body.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)16 : Þei bene heyest in grece in August alle the moneth duryng.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.4873 : Duryng þe werre, he bare hym ay so wel.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.1521 : We wer victours For euere-more, and verray conquerours, Durynge þe world to ben in remembraunce.
- (1439) Doc.in Morsbach Origurk.18 : Ye seyd margere and Richard..sal pey to ye seyd jon..apeny of rent ȝherele..duryng yer lyfes.
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.BC (Trin-C R.3.20)112 : I wil lyve sool during my lyff.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)9809 : Duryng the days of this du pes..Priam..gert ordan A gret solenite.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)271/23 : Sche was comoun to alle þat wolde haue here, xv ȝere durynge.
- (1463-4) Acc.Howard in RC 57184 : I schal nat interepte heme deweryng is lyffe.
- (1466) in Cox Churches Derb.85 : To Kepe the..joeles of the saide collegiate chapell..duryng all the tyme of his clerkeshype.
- (1466-7) GRed Bk.Bristol121 : That ye In no wyse vexe..the seid Piers Marchauntz Mariners..for default of oure lettres Patentz of saufconduyt..duryng the seid vi monethes.
- a1500 Lydg.LOL (Adv 19.3.1)p.103 : This contynned [read: contynued] duryng mony a yere.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306:Everett)11 : Every lord werred upon oþer..duryng vj yere.