OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 31910

endurable

/ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ.ɪ.bəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tolerable
Able to be endured; tolerable; bearable.
A sharp keen wind blew dead against us; a hard frost prevailed on shore; and the cold was most severe. Yet the air was so intensely clear, and dry, and bright, that the temperature…
As his bodily strength increased, and his health, considerably impaired by inward suffering, improved, the trouble of his soul became more endurable—and in some measure to endure i…