Endura vs Enduro - What's the difference?
endura | enduro |
(ecclesiastical history) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the to purify the soul, often resulting in death.
* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate 2006, p. 173:
*:There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction called the ‘endura ’.
* 2000 , René Weis, The Yellow Cross , Penguin 2001, p. 60:
*:Guillemette was consoled by the Good Men and went through the endura , the Cathars' purifying death-fast.
(uncountable) A motorcycle sport run on predominantly off-road courses, with many obstacles and challenges.
(countable) A particular race or event in the sport of enduro.
