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/ɛnˈdjʊɹə/ · noun
(ecclesiastical history) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death..
There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction called the ‘endura’.
Guillemette was consoled by the Good Men and went through the endura, the Cathars' purifying death-fast.
Use endura when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Endura means (ecclesiastical history) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death..
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There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction called the ‘endura’.
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