All 11 Uses of
endure
in
A Death in the Family
- the thing she resented with enduring anger and distaste,
Chpt 4 (definition 1) *enduring = lasting (continuing to exist through time)
- Hannah knew that silence must itself be virtually unbearable for Mary, and that it would bring her face to face with likelihoods still harder to endure.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- While she was speaking, she was with her voice, her eyes and with each word opening in Hannah those all but forgotten hours, almost thirty years past, during which the cross of living had first nakedly borne in upon her being, and she had made the first beginnings of learning how to endure and accept it.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- Her heart lifted up in a kind of pride in Mary, in every sorrow she could remember, her own or that of others (and the remembrances rushed upon her); in all existence and endurance.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- Just do your best to endure it and...
Chpt 8 (definition 2) *endure = suffer through
- He braced against it quietly to accept, endure it, relishing not only his exertion but the sullen, obdurate cruelty of the iron, for it was the cruelty which proved and measured his courage.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- Instead, he watched her dim-sighted, enduring face as she gazed out once more across the room, and felt a moment of incredulous and amused pride in her immense and unbreakable courage, and of proud gratitude, regardless of and including all regret, to have had so many years with such a woman; but that was beyond utterance: and then once more he thought of his daughter and of what she had been through and now must face.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- WHEN GRIEF AND SHOCK surpass endurance there occur phases of exhaustion, of anesthesia in which relatively little is left and one has the illusion of recognizing, and understanding, a good deal.†
Chpt 18 (definition 2)
- Throughout these days Mary had, during these breathing spells, drawn a kind of solace from the recurrent thought: at least I am enduring it.†
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
- She thought that she had never before had a chance to realize the strength that human beings have, to endure; she loved and revered all those who had ever suffered, even those who had failed to endure.†
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
- She thought that she had never before had a chance to realize the strength that human beings have, to endure; she loved and revered all those who had ever suffered, even those who had failed to endure.†
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist
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(2) (endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)