All 4 Uses of
endure
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Having already had more than a taste of them in the house of my old master, and having endured them there,
Chpt 5 *endured = suffered through
- We were worked fully up to the point of endurance.†
Chpt 10endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- Having already had more than a taste of them in the house of my old master, and having endured them there, I very naturally inferred my ability to endure them elsewhere, and especially at Baltimore; for I had something of the feeling about Baltimore that is expressed in the proverb, that "being hanged in England is preferable to dying a natural death in Ireland."†
Chpt 5
- He received all the benefits of slaveholding without its evils; while I endured all the evils of a slave, and suffered all the care and anxiety of a freeman.†
Chpt 11 *
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