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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Endurance \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: endurance n 1: the power to withstand hardship or stress 2: a state of surviving; remaining alive [syn: {survival}]
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