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• a variation of inure.

enure

American  

[en-yoor, -oor] / ɛnˈjʊər, -ˈʊər /

verb (used with or without object)

enured, enuring

1. a variant of inure.

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enure British  

/ ɪˈnjʊə /

verb

1. a variant spelling of inure

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Other Word Forms

• enurement
  noun

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Example Sentences

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enure enured enuring

But he learns to make allowances for you, and comes to view your failings charitably, especially as they enure to his benefit, and so lean to Virtue's side.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

The object of the practice was to enure the men to work, not only when fresh, but when tired.

From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Geoffrey Keith Rose

Has not Spenser his law-terms: his capias, defeasance, and duresse; his emparlance; his enure, essoyn, and escheat; his folkmote, forestall and gage; his livery and seasin, wage and waif?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various

Ambition becomes an atmosphere; the man whose temperament and self-training enure him to it breathes it at last as though it were his native air.

From Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston

But what--what if those grants of land---I care not whether you call them chartered rights or vested interests--which you freemen enjoy of him--what if they do not enure?

From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman

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 William F. Howe

We are well weaned from ye delicate milke of our mother countrie, and enured to ye difficulties of a strange and hard land, which yet in a great parte we have by patience overcome. 3ly.

From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

So much are men enured in their miserable estate, that no condition is so poore, but they will accept; so they may continue in the same.

From Why Worry? by George Lincoln Walton

There is Marpesia, through her fruitfulness, inexhaustible of men, and men through her barrenness not only enured to hardship, but in your arms.

From The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington

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 James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

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 Oliver Wendell Holmes

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 Henry Charles Lea

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