The Only Use of
inure
in
Jane Eyre
- ...and I followed her across a square hall with high doors all round: she ushered me into a room whose double illumination of fire and candle at first dazzled me, contrasting as it did with the darkness to which my eyes had been for two hours inured;
Chpt 11inured = become untroubled due to prior experience
Definition:
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(inure) desensitize or harden (cause to stop being troubled by something bad due to prior exposure to it)