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
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
To live in a beautiful country, and to enure myself as much as possible to the labours of the field, have been for this year past my dream of the day, my sigh at midnight.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.
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 Rose, Geoffrey Keith
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