co-endure
co-endure verb: to endure alongside someone or something, to coexist over time.
Verb
co-endure (third-person singular simple present co-endures, present participle co-enduring, simple past and past participle co-endured)
- To endure alongside someone or something, to coexist over time.
- But the task before us, which is to co-endure with our existence, is rather one of microscopic fineness, and the heroism required is that of patience.1900, Robert Louis Stevenson, A Christmas Sermon
- There is a saying, "Government will co-endure with unbelief, but not with injustice.1839, W. F. Thompson (Translator), Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People: Exhibited in its Professed Connexion with the European, so as to Render Either an Introduction to the Other
- To endure or suffer with someone
- An ability to co-endure the pain and suffering of the afflicted requires an awareness that theirs is the sort of pain that manifests itself not just physically or psychologically, but socially as well.2013, Derrell R. Watkins, Practical Theology for Aging, →ISBN, page 62
Forms of co-endure
| third-person singular present | co-endures |
|---|---|
| present participle | co-enduring |
| past participle | co-endured |
| past | co-endured |
| alternative form | coendure |
Origin of co-endure
From co- + endure.
Questions about co-endure
- What does co-endure mean?
- Co-endure means to endure alongside someone or something, to coexist over time.
- What part of speech is co-endure?
- Co-endure is a verb.
- What is the past tense of co-endure?
- The past tense of co-endure is co-endured.
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