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endura ‎(uncountable)

(ecclesiastical history) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars 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.

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