Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-DUR'ANCE, n. [See Endure.]

1. Continuance; a state of lasting or duration; lastingness. Spenser.
2. A bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without sinking or yielding to the pressure; sufferance; patience. Their fortitude was must admirable in their presence and endurance of all evils, of pain, and of death. Temple.
3. Delay; a waiting for. [Not used.] Shak.