enduring meaning: definition, quotations

enduring

adj

UK /ɪnˈdjʊə.ɹɪŋ/ · US /ɪnˈd(j)ʊɚ.ɪŋ/

Long-lasting without significant alteration; continuing through time in the same relative state.

Synonyms: diuturnal, prolonged
Derived terms: co-enduring, enduringly, enduringness, nonenduring, unenduring
Related terms: durative, endure, perduring

noun

endurance

It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise[…]1854, James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians, page 14:

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