Enduring vs Eternal - What's the difference?
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endurance
* 1854 , James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians (page 14)
Lasting forever; unending.
* John Locke
* Dryden
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(philosophy) existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly
(dated) Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.
As adjectives the difference between enduring and eternal
is that enduring is long-lasting while eternal is lasting forever; unending.As a verb enduring
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun enduring
is endurance.enduring
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(head)Noun
(en noun)- It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise
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*eternal
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* (chiefly archaic) * (obsolete) * eternall (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal
- Fires eternal in thy temple shine.
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- some eternal villain