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third-person singular simple present dures, present participle during, simple past and past participle dured
(archaic, intransitive) To last, continue, endure. quotations
she was one of the damoysels of the lake that hyȝte 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(please add an English translation of this quotation)
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “primum”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV
But he that was ſowne in the ſtony grũde ys he / which heareth the worde of God / and anon with ioye receaveth itt / yet hath he no rottꝭ in him ſelfe / And therefore he dureth but a ſeaſon […].
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Matthew xiij:, folio xviij, recto
comparative more dure, superlative most dure
(archaic) hard; harsh; severe; rough quotations
The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude.
1861, William Howard Russell, Leicester Chronicle