▪ I. during, vbl. n.
(ˈdjʊərɪŋ)
[f. dure v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb dure: duration.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. iv. 99 (Camb. MS.) Yif they weere of lengere durynge. 1382 Wyclif 1 Esdras iv. 40 Mageste of alle duringis aboue time [aevorum]. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 241 How shorte they [rychesse] be in during. a 1661 Fuller Worthies iii. (1662) 38 Long the during thereof. |
2. Hardening; induration. In quot. attrib.
| 1804 Hull Advertiser 30 June 2/3 A Bark-Mill, three Leather-houses, two During-shades. |
▪ II. ˈduring, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That dures; lasting, continuing.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. x. (1495) 230 Fallynge euylles ben moost duringe and harde to heele. 1568 T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 51 Nor canst thou..stop the trumpe, that sounds hir during fame. 1601 Weever Mirr. Mart. D j, Marble..and during Adamant. 1633 Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 226 Charity is a during and perpetual grace. 1850 Blackie æschylus II. 15 Close-linked chains of during adamant. |
▪ III. during, pres. pple. and prep. (conj.)
(ˈdjʊərɪŋ)
Also 5 dewer-, 6 duering.
† 1. The pres. pple. of dure v. = enduring, lasting, continuing, was used in Fr. and Eng. in a construction derived from the Latin ‘ablative absolute’; thus L. vita durante, OF. vie durant, Eng. life during, while life endured or endures.
| c 1440 Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 271 Sche was comoun to alle þat wolde haue here, xv. ȝere durynge. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. lxxxviii. 72 She neuer was seyn among folke hir lyf durynge. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xxxviii. 52 This sege durynge, ther were many skirmysshes. 1542–5 Brinklow Lament. lf. 12, I..will continuallye, my lyfe duringe, praye vnto the euerlyuinge God. |
The participle also often stood before the n., e.g. L. durante bello, F. durant la guerre, Eng. during the war; in which construction during came in the modern langs. to be treated as
2. prep. Throughout the whole continuance of; hence, in the course of, in the time of.
| c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 283 (MS. Gg. 4. 27) Stedefaste wedewys durynge alle here lyuys. a 1400–50 Alexander 1118 In damaging of Darius durand [Dublin endurand] his lyfe. 14.. Epiph. in Tundale's Vis. 103 This contynued duryng mony a yere. 1548 Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 221 An annuitie of an. C. l. [{pstlg}100] duryng his lyfe. 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xxii. 29 Al that which during our voyage was happened unto us. 1648 Bury Wills (Camden) 203 Dureing the terme of her naturall life. 1670 J. Smith Eng. Improv. Reviv'd 77 Trees may live during the world. 1678 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 49 Judge North, who supplies the Lord Chancelors place during his being sicke. 1754 Hume Hist. Eng. (1812) I. iv. 281 During the course of seven hundred years. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. xxiii. 161 During the night the rain changed to snow. 1885 Act 48 & 49 Vict. c. 58 §2 The hours during which the offices..shall be open. |
† 3. conj. While; until. (Also during that.) Obs. rare. [cf. F. durant que, pendant que.]
| 1595 T. Bedingfield tr. Macchiavelli's Florentine Hist. 192 During that these matters..were handled in Toscana. 1653 Cloria & Narcissus i. 308 To remaine..during a necessary conveniency might also be had for the repairing of her own ship. 1693 Mem. Cnt. Teckely iv. 32 During the Christians and the Turks were seeking one another for fighting. |