endura
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From New Latin endūra, from Old Occitan endurar (“to fast, endure”).
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endura (plural enduras)
- (ecclesiastical history) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 173:
- There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction called the ‘endura’.
- 2000, René Weis, The Yellow Cross, Penguin, published 2001, page 60:
- Guillemette was consoled by the Good Men and went through the endura, the Cathars' purifying death-fast.
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endura
- inflection of endurar:
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endura
- third-person singular past historic of endurer
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endura
- inflection of endurar: