endura en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɛnˈdjʊɹə/
Etymology
From New Latin endūra, from Old Occitan endurar (“to fast, endure”).
Meanings
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A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death.
Guillemette was consoled by the Good Men and went through the endura, the Cathars' purifying death-fast.
2000, René Weis, The Yellow Cross, Penguin, published 2001, page 60:There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction called the ‘endura’.
1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 173:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| enduras | Number=Plur | lexicographic |