All 5 Uses of
endure
in
The Idiot
- He was overcome by a feeling of inexpressible shame; his boyish sensitiveness was wounded beyond endurance.†
Chpt 2.8 *endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- If he had not been driven beyond the limits of endurance, he would not have ventured to express certain conjectures so openly.†
Chpt 2.8
- Imagine what must have been going on in that man's mind at such a moment; what dreadful convulsions his whole spirit must have endured; it is an outrage on the soul that's what it is.†
Chpt 1.2
- All this has to be endured, and especially the thought: 'Here are ten thousand men, and not one of them is going to be executed, and yet I am to die.'†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Who would wish me, not only to be sentenced, but to endure the sentence to the end?†
Chpt 3.7
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