endura

noun /ɛnˈdjʊɹə/

1. A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death.

   There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction called the ‘endura’.

Where it comes from

From New Latin endūra, from Old Occitan endurar (“to fast, endure”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry endura (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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