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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

Example Sentences

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enure enured enuring

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 John Milton

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 Charles Campbell

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

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 enure thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough, and appear fresh.

From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by J P Kemble

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

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 Julian S. (Julian Stafford) Corbett

Our constant life out of doors had enured us to hardships and made us impervious to fatigue.

From The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt

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

Gouvion-Saint-Cyr enured the army at the beginning of the Revolution, and passing rapidly through the lower grades, became a general of brigade at twenty-nine, and a general of division at thirty.

From Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. by Henry Wager Halleck

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

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