Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Endurance

Endurance , noun

[Compare Old French endurance. See Endure.]

1.
A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
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