Both Uses of
endure
in
Light in August
- The other looked at the sheriff, outraged, desperate, frayed almost to endurance's limit; looking at him, the deputy thought, 'If he don't get that reward, he will just die.'†
Chpt 14 *endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- I think that is what gave him not the courage so much as the passive patience to endure and recognise and accept the one opportunity which he had to break in the middle of that crowded square, manacled, and run.†
Chpt 19
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