All 9 Uses of
endure
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- she misused me past the endurance of a block: an oak but with one green leaf on it, would have answered her: my very visor began to assume life and scold with her.†
Scene 2.1endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently,Scene 5.1 *endure = suffer through
- I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.†
Scene 2.1
- O God, sir, here's a dish I love not: I cannot endure my Lady Tongue.†
Scene 2.1
- She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.†
Scene 2.1
- A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.†
Scene 2.3
- You shall also make no noise in the streets: for, for the watch to babble and to talk is most tolerable and not to be endured.†
Scene 3.3 *
- Come, lady, die to live: this wedding day Perhaps is but prolong'd: have patience and endure.†
Scene 4.1
- No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself.†
Scene 5.1
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