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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "continued existence in time;" see endure + -ance . Meaning "ability to bear suffering, etc." is from 1660s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Endurance \En*dur"ance\, n. [Cf. OF. endurance. See Endure .] A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. --Sir W. Scott. The act of bearing ...
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Endurance was an American reality television children's program, previously shown on the Discovery Kids cable network in the United States and also on networks in other countries. The show's format is somewhat similar to the CBS television series Survivor ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon tests a runner's endurance" a state of surviving; remaining alive [syn: survival ]
Usage examples of endurance.
Unwilling to risk his new empire by returning to Cross Creek as the war draws closer threatening both his wife and mother, only the Major is there recuperating from a minor wound with an abundance of drink when a marauding band abruptly materializes to shoot him dead after degrading him mercilessly, tormenting the older woman beyond endurance and then in a prolonged scene reveling in its own depiction of cruelty raping the younger one in almost clinical detail.
I selected the better, an Africander stallion of the blaauw-schimmel, or blue-roan type, which is famous for speed and endurance.
The Buriat horse is famous for its power of endurance, and the attachment between master and animal is very great.
It was a true son of France who first had the persistence of courage and the endurance of imagination to enter the continent and see the gates close behind him--Jacques Cartier, a master pilot of St.
Endurance was waiting impatiently, but the years flew by and Cho remained a child.
The field of Antietam often returned to him, almost as real and vivid as on that terrible day, when the dead lay heaped in masses around the Dunkard church and the Southern army called forth every ounce of courage and endurance for its very salvation.
Lastly, the law of the long endurance of allied forms on the same continent,--of marsupials in Australia, of edentata in America, and other such cases,--is intelligible, for within a confined country, the recent and the extinct will naturally be allied by descent.
The instances of feats of agility and endurance are in every sense of the word examples of physiologic and functional anomalies, and have in all times excited the interest and investigation of capable physicians.
Greek mythology we find a great number of heroes, celebrated for their feats of strength and endurance.
Occasionally patched, the stone bore testimony to endurance and beauty even as the graveyard contents announced the fleetingness of life.
Pool and the tunnels that comprise the first two miles of the Endurance Course probably the hardest of all Commando tests so Marines learn to know it well.
Christian benevolencethe tranquil heroism of endurance, the blameless purity, the contempt of guilty fame and of honors destructive to the human race, which, had they assumed the proud name of philosophy, would have been blazoned in his brightest words, because they own religion as their principlesink into narrow asceticism.
The Migs were faster, more maneuverable, but the Tomcat made up for that in sheer power and endurance.
Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine at Natick, Massachusetts, began a 24 week training study to determine if women could develop the strength and endurance to perform duties normally assigned to men.
He was rawboned, large and rangy, a man of endurance and strength, a UDT man with pararescue and other paramilitary experience.