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Pured vs Dured - What's the difference?

pured | dured |

As an adjective pured

is (obsolete) purified; refined.

As a verb dured is

(dure).

pured

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (obsolete) purified; refined.
    • Bread of pured wheat. — Chaucer.
    Pured gold. — Chaucer.
    (Webster 1913)

    dured

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dure)

    • dure

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (dur)
  • (label) To last, continue, endure.
  • *:
  • *:she was one of the damoysels of the lake that hy?te Nyneue // And euer she maade Merlyn good chere tyl she had lerned of hym al maner thynge that she desyred and he was assoted vpon her that he myghte not be from her / Soo on a tyme he told kynge Arthur that he sholde not dure longe but for al his craftes he shold be put in the erthe quyck
  • *1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) XIII:
  • *:But he that was sowne in the stony grunde ys he, which heareth the worde of God, and anon with ioye receaveth itt, yet hath no rottes in himselfe, And therefore he dureth but a season.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (lena) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) hard; harsh; severe; rough
  • * W. H. Russell
    • The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude.

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