Endurance
[ɪn'djʊər(ə)ns;en-] or [ɪn'dʊrəns]
Definition
(noun.) the power to withstand hardship or stress; 'the marathon tests a runner's endurance'.
Checker: Mario--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
(n.) The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.
Typist: Rosanna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Bearing, suffering, sufferance.[2]. Patience, fortitude.[3]. [Rare.] Continuance, continuation, lastingness.
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Examples
- My application was of longer endurance; but it was not so severe whilst it endured. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The directness and endurance of the influence of this trained veteran on his gifted son a hundred fine incidents attest. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The noble lady's condition on these delightful occasions was one compounded of heroic endurance and heroic forgiveness. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Well--Selden had twice been ready to stake his faith on Lily Bart; but the third trial had been too severe for his endurance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The limit of Russian endurance was reached. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I mean the endurance of bombardments, the necessity to attack, the life of the parapet. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The first four days of his endurance were days so long and heavy, that he began to be appalled by the prospect before him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Some people wish vigor, endurance, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For a time they seemed to be suffering mutely as the beasts suffer; but there is a limit to the endurance even of the most ignorant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Even in the thinking of her endurance, she drew her habitual air of proud indifference about her like a veil, though she soon cast it off again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The pain was almost beyond endurance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is a limit even to my endurance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But eight months was the limit of his endurance of his new master’s tyranny, and at the end of that time he gave up his position. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He only seemed to contrast his present cheerfulness and felicity with the dire endurance that was over. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Moreover, Dr. Gunther has recently been led by several considerations to infer that with fishes the same forms have a long endurance. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Had I not been subject to jealousy, and were the endurances to be all mine? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Editor: Ryan