Endurance \En*dur"ance\, n. [Cf. OF. endurance. See Endure.]

1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.

Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. --Sir W. Scott.

2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.

Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death. --Sir W. Temple.

Syn: Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)