[f. ENDURING ppl. a. + -NESS.] The quality of being enduring.

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1832.  Village Record (West-Chester, PA), 1 Aug., 1/1.

                        Such scenes as this
Where all is trial, dark and difficult,
Expose the hidden depth, th’ enduringness,
The ardent passion of maternal love.

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1843.  Brit. & For. Rev., XV. 136. It was that to which power often yields, as the physical to the moral,—patience, enduringness (Beharrlichkeit), perseverance.

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a. 1867.  Jas. Hamilton, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xc. 16. In so far as it was to have any success or enduringness, it must be God’s work.

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1878.  Dowden, Stud. Lit., 155. The enduringness of nerve needed for sane and continuous action.

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