endura

New Latin, from Old Occitan endurar (“to fast, endure”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈdjʊɹə/

endura (plural enduras)

1. (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.

• Urenda, neurad, undear, unread

endura

1. third-person singular past historic of endurer

• Renaud