All 9 Uses of
endure
in
King Lear
- I'll not endure it
Scene 1.3 *endure = suffer through
- The wonder is, he hath endur'd so long:
Scene 5.2 *endur'd = lasted (continued to survive)unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled endured.
- Not only, sir, this your all-licens'd fool, But other of your insolent retinue Do hourly carp and quarrel; breaking forth In rank and not-to-be-endured riots.†
Scene 1.4
- Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter: The tyranny of the open night's too rough For nature to endure.†
Scene 3.4
- —Pour on; I will endure:— In such a night as this!†
Scene 3.4
- The sea, with such a storm as his bare head In hell-black night endur'd, would have buoy'd up, And quench'd the stelled fires; yet, poor old heart, He holp the heavens to rain.†
Scene 3.7endur'd = continued to existunconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled endured.
- I never shall endure her: dear my lord, Be not familiar with her.†
Scene 5.1
- Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all:—come on.†
Scene 5.2
- Whilst I was big in clamour, came there a man Who, having seen me in my worst estate, Shunn'd my abhorr'd society; but then, finding Who 'twas that so endur'd, with his strong arms He fastened on my neck, and bellow'd out As he'd burst heaven; threw him on my father; Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him That ever ear receiv'd: which in recounting His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life Began to crack: twice then the trumpets sounded, And there I left him tranc'd.†
Scene 5.2endur'd = continued to existunconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled endured.
Definitions:
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(1)
(endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(2)
(endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist