enduring
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Endure \En*dure"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Endured}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Enduring}.] [F. endurer; pref. en- (L. in) + durer to
last. See {Dure}, v. i., and cf. {Indurate}.]
1. To continue in the same state without perishing; to last;
to remain.
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Their verdure still endure. --Shak.
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He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not
endure. --Job viii.
15.
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2. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer
patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity;
to hold out.
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Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong
in the days that I shall deal with thee? --Ezek.
xxii. 14.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
166 Moby Thesaurus words for "enduring":
Spartan, abiding, accepting, adamantine, age-long, aged, alive,
ancient, antique, armed with patience, assiduous, bulky,
changeless, chronic, constant, continuing, dense, diligent,
disciplined, diuturnal, dogged, durable, eidetic, endurant,
eternal, evergreen, faithful, firm, fixed, forbearing, fresh,
frozen, green, hard, hardy, heavy, immobile, immortal, immutable,
inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, indulgent, industrious,
insistent, intact, intransient, inveterate, invincible, inviolate,
kept in remembrance, lasting, lenient, long-lasting, long-lived,
long-standing, long-suffering, long-term, longanimous, longeval,
longevous, loyal, macrobiotic, massive, never-tiring, obstinate,
of long duration, of long standing, patient, patient as Job,
perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual,
perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious,
philosophical, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, quiescent, rapt,
recalled, recollected, relentless, remaining, remembered, resolute,
retained, rigid, rugged, sedulous, self-controlled, sempervirent,
single-minded, sleepless, slogging, solid, sound, stable, static,
stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, stoic, stout, strong,
stubborn, sturdy, sustained, tenacious, tireless, tolerant,
tolerating, tolerative, torpid, tough, unabating, unaltered,
unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconquerable,
undaunted, understanding, undestroyed, undiscouraged, undrooping,
unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching,
unforgotten, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing,
unrelenting, unremitting, unshifting, unsleeping, unswerving,
untiring, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying,
unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, vital, vivid, weariless,
well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded,
well-made
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