ENDU'RANCE, noun [See Endure.] Continuance; a state of lasting or duration; lastingness. 1. 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. 2. Delay; a waiting for. [Not used.]
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