All 8 Uses of
endure
in
The Bluest Eye
- Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.†
Chpt 2endurable = something that can be suffered through (or put up with)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- Pecola, on the other hand, restricted by youth and sex, experimented with methods of endurance.†
Chpt 2endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- A sweet, endurable, even cherished irritation, full of promise and delicate security.†
Chpt 2endurable = something that can be suffered through (or put up with)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- In any illness that could not be handled by ordinary means— known cures, intuition, or endurance—the word was always, "Fetch M'Dear.†
Chpt 4endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- ...pains they had endured--childbirth, rheumatism, croup, sprains...
Chpt 4 *endured = suffered through
- Short crocus blades sheathed the purple-and-white hearts that so wished to be first they endured the chill and rain of early spring.†
Chpt 4
- Afraid of running into Darlene, he would not go far from the house, but neither could he endure the atmosphere of his dead Aunt's house.†
Chpt 4
- Bestiality did not occur to him, and sodomy was quite out of the question, for he did not experience sustained erections and could not endure the thought of somebody else's.†
Chpt 4
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