Slurring with an evasive answer the question
concerning the endurance of his own possession.
--Sir W.
Scott.
2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain
or distress without resistance, or without being overcome;
sufferance; patience.
Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience
and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death.
--Sir W.
Temple.
Syn: Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.