Endear vs Inure - What's the difference?
endear | inure |
(obsolete) To make (something) more precious or valuable.
(obsolete) To make (something) more expensive; to increase the cost of.
(obsolete) To stress (something) as important; to exaggerate.
*, II.18:
*:Salvianus Massiliensis this Testimonie, might say, it is now rather deemed a vertue among them.
To make (someone) dear or precious.
To cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 465:
* 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World
(intransitive, chiefly, legal) To take effect, to be operative.
* Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said, cryptically, "to inure to the benefit of Jim".
As verbs the difference between endear and inure
is that endear is (obsolete) to make (something) more precious or valuable while inure is to cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate.endear
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Verb
- To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.
- Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured . / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.
- As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
