En*dur"ance (?), n. [Cf.
OF. endurance. See Endure.]
1. 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.
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.
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