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36 words match “DURANCE”

DURANCE n. 4 definitions
Continuance; duration. See Endurance. [Archaic] Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden.
ENDURANCE n. 2 definitions
; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.
INDURANCE n.
See Endurance.
PERDURANCE; PERDURATION n.
Long continuance. [Archaic]
BEARING n.
Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
BOTTOM n.
Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
CIT n.
city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously. "Insulted as a cit". Johnson Which past endurance sting the tender cit. Emerson.
DURANT n.
See Durance, 3.
ENDUREMENT n.
Endurance. [Obs.] South.
FAMISH v.
To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden.
FATIGUE v.
labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.
FORTITUDE n.
n or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble. Extolling patience as the truest fortitude. Milton. Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. Locke.
GAMENESS n.
Endurance; pluck.
HARDINESS n.
Capability of endurance.
HARDY a.
Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
IMPATIENCE n.
The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly. Shak. W…
INCAPABLE a.
etc.; not capable; as, incapable of holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc.
INSUFFERABLE a.
Offensive beyond endurance; detestable. A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff. Dryden.
INSUFFERABLY adv.
In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.
IRON a.
Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.; as:
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