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/ˈɛndərəns/ Listen

noun

Endurance n.

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. "Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession."

The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience. "Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death."

Synonyms: Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Endurance" Quotes from Famous Books

... and over the country like a madman. It shuts a white-faced, lovely, little woman from her neighbours, but I have passed her walking the road at night with both hands pressed against her heart. Sometimes it tries the Princess past endurance and control; and it has her so worn and tired struggling with it that she is willing to carry another secret, rather than try to find strength to do anything that would make more trouble ...

— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter

... and I did what I could to keep up the talk. Derrick meanwhile put away the chessmen, and lighted the Major's candle. He even managed to force up a laugh at Lawrence's story, and, as he helped his father out of the room, I think I was the only one who noticed the look of tired endurance in ...

— Derrick Vaughan--Novelist • Edna Lyall

... him a presentation of a purse of gold from the company, and a fame for pluck and endurance that placed him as the chief of ...

— Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. - Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood • Prentiss Ingraham

... smart as traps" seldom are—she had the faculty of adapting herself to circumstances, and of identifying herself with the family in which she lived, in a way that stood in stead of a good deal. She was quite too smart for the patient endurance of the whims of a nervous invalid, and found positive refreshment in the present bustle and hurry, and was inclined not only to be agreeable, but ...

— The Inglises - How the Way Opened • Margaret Murray Robertson

... than a mile the start of our pursuers; but our horses were worn with long travel, while it was evident theirs were comparatively fresh and vigorous; our escape therefore, must be a question of speed and endurance. ...

— The Young Trail Hunters • Samuel Woodworth Cozzens

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