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endure
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Dante's Paradise -- translated by Norton
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Thou reasonest, 'If the good will endure, by what reckoning doth the violence of others lessen for me the measure of desert?'
Canto 1-11 *

endure = continued to exist
the death that He endured that I may live
Canto 23-33 *

endured = suffered through
[3] Not long did I endure it, nor so little that I did not see it sparkling round about, like iron that issues boiling from the fire†
Canto 1-11
My sight, that followed her so far as was possible, after it lost her turned to the mark of greater desire, and wholly rendered itself to Beatrice; but she so flashed upon my gaze that at first the sight endured it not: and this made me more slow in questioning.†
Canto 1-11
Little did Beatrice endure me thus, and she began, irradiating me with a smile such as would make a man in the fire happy, "According to my infallible advisement, how a just vengeance could be justly avenged has set thee thinking.†
Canto 1-11
By not enduring for his own good a curb upon the power which wills, that man who was not born,—damning himself, damned all his offspring; wherefore the human race lay sick below for many centuries, in great error, till it pleased the Word of God to descend where He, by the sole act of His eternal love, united with Himself in person the nature which had.†
Canto 1-11
Thou sayest, 'I see the water, I see the fire, the air; and the earth, and all their mixtures come to corruption, and endure short while, and yet these things were created;' so that, if what I have said has been true, they ought to be secure against corruption.†
Canto 1-11
[2] The souls of the blessed are hidden in the light which emanates from them; after the resurrection of the body they will become visible, but then how will the bodily eyes endure such brightness†
Canto 12-22
O true sparkling of the Holy Spirit, how sudden and glowing it became to mine eyes, which, vanquished, endured it not!†
Canto 12-22
Well is it that be endlessly should grieve who, for the love of thing which endures not eternally, despoils him of that love.†
Canto 12-22
[5] Rejoices that it has capacity to endure such great joy†
Canto 12-22
Oh, how much better it would be that those folk of whom I speak were neighbors, and to have your confine at Galluzzo and at Trespiano,[3] than to have them within, and to endure the stench of the churl of Aguglione,[4] and of him of Signa, who already has his eye sharp for barratry!†
Canto 12-22
"The part in me which in mortal eagles sees and endures the sun," it began to me, "must now be fixedly looked upon, because of the fires whereof I make my shape, those wherewith the eye in my head sparkles are the highest of all their grades.†
Canto 12-22
[1] And though I was there, in respect to my doubt,[2] like glass to the color which cloaks it; it[3] endured not to await the time in silence, but with the force of its own weight urged from my mouth, "What things are these?" whereat I saw great festival of sparkling†
Canto 12-22
The other, through grace which distils from a fount so deep that creature never pushed the eye far as its primal wave, there below set all his love on righteousness; wherefore from grace to grace God opened his eye to our future redemption, so that he believed in it, and thenceforth endured no more the stench of paganism, and reproved therefor the perverse folk.†
Canto 12-22
O Patience, that endurest so much!†
Canto 12-22

endurest = continue to exist

standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou endurest" in older English, today we say "You endure."
The aspect of thy son, Hyperion, here I endured, and I saw how Maia and Dione[1] move around and near him.†
Canto 12-22
[1] [1] The eyes of Dante, powerless to endure the sight of the glorified body of Christ, when that is withdrawn on high, are able to look upon those whom the light of Christ illumines†
Canto 23-33
[2] Ye below go not along one path in philosophizing; so much do the love of appearance[3] and the thought of it transport you; and yet this is endured hereabove with less indignation than when the divine Scripture is set aside, or when it is perverted†
Canto 23-33
And such a one will then be prefect in the divine forum that openly or covertly he will not go with him along one road;[3] but short while thereafter shall he be endured by God in the holy office; for he shall be thrust down for his deserts, there where Simon Magus is, and shall make him of Anagna go lower.†
Canto 23-33
O Lady, in whom my hope is strong, and who, for my salvation, didst endure to leave thy footprints in Hell, of all those things which I have seen, I recognize by thy power and by thy goodness the grace and the virtue.†
Canto 23-33
[3] And as on this side the glorious seat of the Lady of Heaven, and the other seats below it, make so great a division, thus, opposite, does that of the great John, who, ever holy, endured the desert and martyrdom, and then Hell for two years;[4] and beneath him Francis and Benedict and Augustine and others are allotted thfis to divide, far down as here from circle to circle†
Canto 23-33
I think that by the keenness of the living ray which I endured, I should have been bewildered if my eyes had been averted from it.†
Canto 23-33

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(1) (endure as in: endured the pain)
to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
(2) (endure as in: endure through the ages)
to continue to exist
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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