Both Uses of
endure
in
Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen
- "A testimony to endurance" is what she called it.†
p. 34.9 *endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- But then I remembered how my mother had called the sycamore a testimony to endurance.†
p. 142.6
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