enduraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɛnˈdjʊɹə/

名詞

endura (plural enduras)

1. (ecclesiastical history) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death.
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 173:

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

   • 2000, René Weis, The Yellow Cross, Penguin, published 2001, page 60:

     Guillemette was consoled by the Good Men and went through the endura, the Cathars' purifying death-fast.

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• Renaud, Urenda, dauner, neurad, undear, unread