En-dūʹrance, n.
n. [See ENDURE.]
Sense 1. A state of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. W. Scott.
Sense 2. A bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without sinking or yielding to the pressure; sufferance; patience.
Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death. Sir W. Temple.
Sense 3. Delay; a waiting for. [Obs.] Shak.
Synonyms—Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.