All 10 Uses of
endure
in
This I Believe
- the human body as transitory and fragile and, by contrast, the soul as enduring.
Chpt 14 *enduring = continuing to exist
- Apparently what I must do to make life more endurable is to follow my principles, with the hope that enough of this feeling will rub off on my associates to begin a chain reaction.†
Chpt 16endurable = 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.
- I also think of those gun-starved wretches who after years of unendurable exploitation in forced labor camps, still had enough humanness left in them to sing or even joke occasionally.†
Chpt 38unendurable = not capable of being suffered through (or put up with)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unendurable means not and reverses the meaning of endurable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- By eight o'clock on a Tuesday night, you will experience the ecstasy of victory or you will endure the agony of defeat.
Chpt 69 *endure = suffer through
- But later in the evening, one man speaks an animadversion on a little principality in the Balkans and is met with the clenched fist of the man without a country, who would not endure this insult to the place where he was born.†
Chpt 6
- I had no hope except that one day things might improve if I endured.†
Chpt 9
- I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth—that we always make it just for the skin of our teeth—but that we will always make it, survive, endure.†
Chpt 37
- I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure, will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets—to the stars and beyond—carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage, and his noble essential decency.†
Chpt 37
- I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure, will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets—to the stars and beyond—carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage, and his noble essential decency.†
Chpt 37
- I believe that within every soul lies the capacity to reach for its own good, that within every physical body there endures an unalienable right to be free from coercion.†
Chpt 72
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