ENDURANCES

Noun

endurances

plural of endurance

Anagrams

• sunderance

Source: Wiktionary

ENDURANCE

En*dur"ance, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. endurance. See Endure.]

1. 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.

2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience. Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death. Sir W. Temple.

Syn.

– Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition