Inures vs Enures - What's the difference?
inures | enures |
(inure)
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".
(enure)
to inure; to become accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure.
(intransitive, chiefly, legal) With "to": to take effect, to be operative.
:: All our striving enures to our own spiritual benefit.
As verbs the difference between inures and enures
is that inures is third-person singular of inure while enures is third-person singular of enure.inures
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- 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.
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(enur)- 1934 , Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an , note 3428 on 29:6: