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enduring

[ en-door-ing, -dyoor- ]

adjective

  1. lasting; permanent:

    a poet of enduring greatness.

  2. patient; long-suffering.


enduring

/ ɪnˈdjʊərɪŋ /

adjective

  1. permanent; lasting
  2. having forbearance; long-suffering


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Derived Forms

  • enˈduringly, adverb
  • enˈduringness, noun

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Other Words From

  • en·during·ly adverb
  • en·during·ness noun
  • nonen·during adjective
  • unen·during adjective
  • unen·during·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of enduring1

First recorded in 1525–35; endure + -ing 2

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Example Sentences

Despite enduring headaches, a fever and shortness of breath, Day kept the paper going by working from home.

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Then Warnock suddenly opened a gigantic, enduring lead of over five points that mirrored Ossoff’s sprint.

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“Purchases that help to foster our social relationships—those are the purchases that are most likely to bring us longer-lasting, more enduring happiness,” Kumar says.

No one has quantified the loss of productivity from this, but it’s significant and enduring.

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It enhances the feeling of visiting the past, and thereby a more enduring appreciation for it.

But the enduring response—stop the world, I want to get off—is the same.

But several of these words and phrases do manage to secure an enduring place in the English language.

Statistics are one thing, enduring the jailhouse ordeal another.

Cruising the Caribbean, enjoying beaches... Enduring Persecution as an American Christian sounds horrible.

Call it tragic, call it comic, or call it both: The most enduring legacy of Viagra might be erectile dysfunction jokes.

So intelligent were her methods that she doubtless had great influence in making the memory of his art enduring.

Uriah said it would dishonour him to seek ease and pleasure at home while other soldiers were enduring hardship at the front.

For Isabel Otis the genius loci had a more powerful and enduring magnetism than any man or woman she had ever known.

Her mother pressed the coveted treasure to her bosom with maternal love, more calm, and deep, and enduring.

Sebastopol was evacuated last night after enduring, for three days, an infernal fire of shot and shell.

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