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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   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’."

Example

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"There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction called the ‘endura’."

Etymology

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

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