Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an endurable or durable manner; so as to be endured.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an endurable manner.
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- adverb In an
endurable ortolerable manner.
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Examples
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A “reliable” vote, or a person who endurably believes in core conservative principles and supremacy of our Constitution.
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And there she got money to buy whiskey that whirled her almost endurably, sometimes even gayly, over the worst things -- money to buy hours, whole days of respite that could be spent in books, in dreams and plannings, in the freedom of a clean and comfortable room, or at the theater or concert.
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The largest cities of our own times could not have existed in the Middle Ages, for they could not have been provisioned, nor have been kept endurably healthy without elaborate aqueducts and drains.
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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And there she got money to buy whiskey that whirled her almost endurably, sometimes even gayly, over the worst things -- money to buy hours, whole days of respite that could be spent in books, in dreams and plannings, in the freedom of a clean and comfortable room, or at the theater or concert.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
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The versification is endurably free from gas, and the style in many parts may be pronounced rather tight and sinewy.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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The versification is endurably free from gas, and the style in many parts may be pronounced rather tight and sinewy.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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The barest necessaries of life are very cheap here; many support existence quite endurably on a franc (18¾ cents) a day; but of the rude Laboring Class few can really afford the comforts and proprieties of an orderly family life, and the privation is very lightly regretted.
Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. Horace Greeley 1841
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The fun was rather heavy, but the audience was very good natured, and whatever the witnesses lacked in wit, they made up in extravagance of costume, so that two hours were whiled away quite endurably.
Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. Horace Greeley 1841
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Ambition -- on Benevolence -- on the Love of Fame, &c.: for all theses such as these, which treat moral qualities as pure abstractions, are stripped of their _human_ interest: and few adults even could write endurably upon such subjects in such a shape; though many might have written very pleasingly and judiciously upon a moral _case_ -- _i. e.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Of course, amending the religious books brilliantly and endurably may serve the future generation if the information is not passed.
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