All 4 Uses of
endure
in
My Antonia
- She was then fifty-five years old, a strong woman, of unusual endurance.†
Book 1 *endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- That long trip through the deep snow had taken all the endurance out of him.†
Book 1
- Nowadays Tony could talk of nothing but the prices of things, or how much she could lift and endure.†
Book 1 *
- I can hear him now, speaking the lines of the poet Statius, who spoke for Dante: 'I was famous on earth with the name which endures longest and honours most.†
Book 3
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