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co-endure en · VERB

Etymology

From co- + endure.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To endure alongside someone or something, to coexist over time.
   • There is a saying, "Government will co-endure with unbelief, but not with injustice. 1839, W. F. Thompson (Translator), Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People: Exhibited in its Professed Connexion with the European, so as to Render Either an Introduction to the Other:
   • But the task before us, which is to co-endure with our existence, is rather one of microscopic fineness, and the heroism required is that of patience. 1900, Robert Louis Stevenson, A Christmas Sermon:
   • The admirable material structure of our noble Universities, the broad basis which unnumbered zealous benefactors have laid, the schools connected with them which spread over the whole kingdome, the sympathies and venerable remembrances with which their names are entwined, give them substance for a perpetual youth, co-enduring with the energies of the British nation, the prime talent of which they will long have the means of picking. 1843, The North of England magazine and Bradshaw's Journal, Volume 3:
2. (transitive) To endure or suffer with someone
   • An ability to co-endure the pain and suffering of the afflicted requires an awareness that theirs is the sort of pain that manifests itself not just physically or psychologically, but socially as well. 2013, Derrell R. Watkins, Practical Theology for Aging, →ISBN, page 62:

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