endurement

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Old French endurement.

Noun[edit]

endurement (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) endurance
    • a. 1716, Robert South, a sermon on Matthew x. 28.
      how much more did he prefer it before the endurement of those eternal miseries of the world to come!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for endurement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)