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/ɛndjˈʊrɪŋ/ /ɪndˈʊrɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Endure v. t.

To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather. "Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure."

To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate. "I will no longer endure it." "Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake." "How can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people?"

To harden; to toughen; to make hardy. (Obs.) "Manly limbs endured with little ease."

Synonyms: To last; remain; continue; abide; brook; submit to; suffer.

Endure v. i. (past & past part. endured; pres. part. enduring)

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain. "Their verdure still endure." "He shall hold it (his house) fast, but it shall not endure."

To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out. "Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?"

adjective

Enduring adj. Lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition. "A better and enduring substance."

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Etymology of 'Enduring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enduring" Quotes from Famous Books

... Almighty, if they should be called before Him. Every fresh burst of thunder seemed to August to be the rocking of the world, trembling in the throes of dissolution. But the world might crumble or melt; there is something more enduring than the world. August felt the everlastingness of love; as many another man in a supreme crisis ...

— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston

... take counsel with her, how wise and brave she would be; how he would be encouraged by her advice and strengthened by her sympathy! But he knew that it was impossible to call to his aid the woman whom it was his first duty to protect from annoyance. She should never know the torture he was enduring until it had came to an end, and he could tell it with his own lips as an indifferent story ...

— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... shoulders. Her spirit had been too long broken for her to rebel consciously against her daughter's authority; but her mind was so constituted that the sense of order was missing, and the pretty coquetry of youth, which had masqueraded once as the more enduring quality of self-respect, was extinguished in the five and thirty penitential years of her marriage. She had a small vacant face, where the pink and white had run into muddiness, a mouth that sagged at the corners like the mouth of a frightened child, and eyes of a sickly purple, ...

— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow

... di Borghese Domenichi—who was in our city, and perhaps still is, a man of reverence and of great authority amongst us, both for his opinions and for his virtues, and much more for the nobility of his family, being distinguished and wealthy and of enduring reputation, being full of years and experience—was often delighted to talk with his neighbors and others of the things of the past, which he, better than anybody else, could do with excellent order and with unclouded ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various

... odors from the scented herbs in the rooms where they were drying. Many have sung the praises of Kentucky's horses, whisy and women, but no poet has tuned his lyre to the more fruitful theme of Kentucky's mast-fed, smoke-cured, herb-scented hams. For such a man waits a crown of enduring bays. ...

— The Red Acorn • John McElroy

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