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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. OF.

endurance

. See

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.

The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.

Syn. – Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.

Noun.

[See Endure.] Continuance; a state of lasting or duration; lastingness.

A bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without sinking or yielding to the pressure; sufferance; patience.

Their fortitude was most admirable in their presence and endurance of all evils, of pain, and of death.

Delay; a waiting for. [Not used.]