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endura
endura
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Noun
endura (uncountable)
- (ecclesiastical history) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, p. 173:
- There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction called the ‘endura’.
- 2000, René Weis, The Yellow Cross, Penguin 2001, p. 60:
- Guillemette was consoled by the Good Men and went through the endura, the Cathars' purifying death-fast.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, p. 173: