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endurable, a.|ɛnˈdjʊərəb(ə)l|
Also 7 indurable.
[f. endure v. + -able.]
1. That can be endured, suffered, put up with.
1800Wordsw. Michael 454 There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else, etc. 1823Lamb Elia (1860) 208 His Iago was the only endurable one which I remember to have seen. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. xi. 458 Life had become at least endurable to her.
2. Able or likely to endure, durable. rare.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 434 The mule..ought to be brought up in..hard places, that so the hoofs may grow hard and indurable. 1616Withals' Dict. 549 Good manners are endurable, but beauty is lost by age. 1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 328 Rock-rooted castles, that seem endurable till the solid globe shall dissolve. 1885Manch. Wkly. Times Supp. 20 June 4/3 This sheepskin is not nearly so strong and endurable as the material it is made to simulate. 1886Northern N. & Q. I. 51 The author has done a solid and endurable piece of work.
Hence enˈdurableness. rare. The state or character of being endurable.
1795Coleridge Plot Discov. 18 If its only excellence, if its whole endurableness consist in motion. |