01 n. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
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A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.“Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession.” — Sir W. Scott.
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2.
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.” — Sir W. Temple.
Syn.
Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.