2 meanings, 26 uses
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1 —5 uses as in:
endured the pain
Definition
to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- I must try to endure it another hour...Chapter 27 (97% in)
endure = put up with
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- This endurance made old Earnshaw furious, when he discovered his son persecuting the poor fatherless child, as he called him.Chapter 4 (71% in)
- 'I'm sorry I hurt you, Linton,' she said at length, racked beyond endurance.Chapter 23 (49% in)
- Both doors and lattices were open; and yet, as is usually the case in a coal-district, a fine red fire illumined the chimney: the comfort which the eye derives from it renders the extra heat endurable.Chapter 32 (20% in)
- He, poor man, was perfectly aghast at the spectacle of Catherine seated on the same bench with Hareton Earnshaw, leaning her hand on his shoulder; and confounded at his favourite's endurance of her proximity: it affected him too deeply to allow an observation on the subject that night.Chapter 32 (92% in)
There are no more uses of "endure" flagged with this meaning in Wuthering Heights.
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2 —1 use as in:
endure through the ages
Definition
to continue to exist
- The meal hardly endured ten minutes.Chapter 10 (38% in)
endured = lasted; or continued to exist
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? —20 uses
exact meaning not specified
- But his self-love would endure no further torment: I heard, and not altogether disapprovingly, a manual cheek given to her saucy tongue.Chapter 31 (62% in)
- 'What the devil is the matter?' he asked, eyeing me in a manner that I could ill endure, after this inhospitable treatment.Chapter 1 (85% in)
- 'Sir,' I exclaimed, 'sitting here within these four walls, at one stretch, I have endured and forgiven the four hundred and ninety heads of your discourse.Chapter 3 (38% in)
- 'I'm not going to endure the persecutions of your hospitable ancestors again.Chapter 3 (61% in)
- He ventured this remark without any intention to insult; but Heathcliff's violent nature was not prepared to endure the appearance of impertinence from one whom he seemed to hate, even then, as a rival.Chapter 7 (58% in)
- Oh, I've endured very, very bitter misery, Nelly!Chapter 10 (54% in)
- Day and night he was watching, and patiently enduring all the annoyances that irritable nerves and a shaken reason could inflict; and, though Kenneth remarked that what he saved from the grave would only recompense his care by forming the source of constant future anxiety — in fact, that his health and strength were being sacrificed to preserve a mere ruin of humanity — he knew no limits in gratitude and joy when Catherine's life was declared out of danger; and hour after hour he would...Chapter 13 (1% in)
- She even disgraces the name of Linton; and I've sometimes relented, from pure lack of invention, in my experiments on what she could endure, and still creep shamefully cringing back!Chapter 14 (61% in)
- She was conscious of his aim, and in her better moods endured his efforts placidly, only showing their uselessness by now and then suppressing a wearied sigh, and checking him at last with the saddest of smiles and kisses.Chapter 15 (17% in)
- Are you willing to endure to the last, and not once attempt a repayment?Chapter 17 (33% in)
- ' "I'm weary of enduring now," I replied; "and I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."Chapter 17 (33% in)
- One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.Chapter 17 (82% in)
- That is the sole consideration which can make me endure the whelp: I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!Chapter 20 (77% in)
- 'About three times, I think, we have been merry and hopeful, as we were the first evening; the rest of my visits were dreary and troubled: now with his selfishness and spite, and now with his sufferings: but I've learned to endure the former with nearly as little resentment as the latter.Chapter 24 (91% in)
- Catherine perceived, as well as I did, that he held it rather a punishment, than a gratification, to endure our company; and she made no scruple of proposing, presently, to depart.Chapter 26 (38% in)
- Linton shivered, and glanced at her, half supplicating, half ashamed; but his cousin's patience was not sufficient to endure this enigmatical behaviour.Chapter 27 (12% in)
- 'I AM afraid now,' she replied, 'because, if I stay, papa will be miserable: and how can I endure making him miserable — when he — when he — Mr. Heathcliff, let ME go home!Chapter 27 (72% in)
- I endured it two or three hours; at length, I heard a footstep: not Heathcliff's.Chapter 27 (97% in)
- "I can't endure you!Chapter 30 (77% in)
- ...to himself! and though in the beginning she either left it at his approach, or quietly joined in my occupations, and shunned remarking or addressing him — and though he was always as sullen and silent as possible — after a while, she changed her behaviour, and became incapable of letting him alone: talking at him; commenting on his stupidity and idleness; expressing her wonder how he could endure the life he lived — how he could sit a whole evening staring into the fire, and dozing.Chapter 32 (51% in)
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