- a variation of inure.
enure
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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The occurrence was a strange and unusual one, and it was only right that it should enure to his great profit.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
He says: I like your late Englishe Hexameters so exceedingly well, that I also enure my penne sometimes in that kinde….
From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by Lowell, James Russell
Or did the crime of Richard, though punished in him, enure to the benefit of Henry?
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
France could not fail to understand that the breaking up of the English monopoly of the American trade would enure to her own benefit.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles
Not that they durst without his leave attempt, But us he sends upon his high behests For state, as Sovran King, and to enure Our prompt obedience.
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John
With none of these changes had Disraeli’s personal action much to do, but they all enured to the benefit of his party, they all swelled the tide which bore him into office in 1874.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
But both were sea-risks of the class to which our seamen were enured.
From Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. by Corbett, Julian S. (Julian Stafford)
For all the trickery and malice which were embodied in it, only enured to the prisoner's benefit.
From Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by Howe, William F.
For, enured to the cold, the husky knows no winter shelter and needs none, sleeping curled, nose in bushy tail, in a hole dug in the snow, through the bitter nights without frost bite.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.
The tender solicitude of her mother, her childlike grief, and her firm belief in the real guiltlessness of her daughter, touched even the custodians of the Tombs who are enured to scenes of pathos.
From The Gilded Age, Part 6. by Warner, Charles Dudley
It became established law that an action of debt would only lie upon a consideration actually received by and enuring to the benefit of the debtor.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
For minor offences the bishops were empowered to imprison during pleasure and fine at discretion—the fine enuring to the royal exchequer.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles
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