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inure
/ɪˈnjʊɹ/
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What does inure mean?
verb
- To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries.
- To take effect, to be operative.
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verb
- (obsolete) To commit.
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She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself.
And, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough and appear fresh.
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Though they might not be inherently important, yet if permitted they would inure the minds of men to the idea of change, and hence be dissolving and anarchic.
He who cannot attain the noble Stoical impassibility, let him secure himself in the bosom of this popular stolidity of mine; what they performed by virtue, I inure myself to do by temperament.
In economic theory, sacred holidays are obviously to be construed as a season of vicarious leisure performed for the divinity or saint in whose name the tabu is imposed and to whose good repute the abstention from useful effort on these days is conceived to inure.