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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

... power to forecast the future; it has been formed rather to explain, judge, and co-ordinate that which was, to help, foster, and make known what already exists, but so far cannot be seen; and when it ventures into what is not yet, it will rarely produce anything very salutary or very enduring. And the influence of the social condition in which we exist lies heavy upon it. How can we frame a satisfactory idea of justice, and ponder it loyally, with the needful tranquillity, when injustice surrounds us on every side? Before we can study justice, or ...

— The Buried Temple • Maurice Maeterlinck

... from. He was amazed to find how negligent he was growing about pots and pans: he began cooking a new mess of oatmeal in the double boiler without bothering to scrape out the too adhesive remnant of the previous porridge. He had come to the conclusion that children are tougher and more enduring than Dr. Holt will admit; and that a little carelessness in matters of hygiene and sterilization does not necessarily mean ...

— Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley

... fishing excursion with some reputable person of your age, will not cast a cloud on the mind of that person's employer, and cause him to fear that his clerk is falling instead of rising in self-esteem. Let my hope be taken as an enduring fact. Now I feel I am on safe ground. You are building a structure. On your west party-wall your neighbor is also erecting one. He is building it so that it will fall down—that is plain. When it falls it will involve you in its ruins because the middle wall ...

— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern

... mischievous potency into beneficial action? Why should we confine a body of men to making laws, when so many of them might be more usefully employed in wheeling barrows? Now there is Mr. PLUMPTRE, who has done so much to make English Sundays respectable—would he not be working far more enduring utility with pickaxe or spade than by labouring at enactments to stop the flowing of the Thames on the Sabbath? Might not D'ISRAELI be turned into a very jaunty carpenter, and be set to the light interior work of both the Houses? ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various

... the old Greeks, and the stern dogma had lost nothing of its truth with the march of the centuries. Indeed, Spencer regretted his rival's threatened exposure. If it lay in his power, he would prevent it: meanwhile, Helen must be snatched from the enduring knowledge of her innocent association with the offender and his pillory. He set his mind on the achievement. To succeed, he must monopolize her company until she quitted the ...

— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy

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