enure

present singular third person enures · participle present enuring · participle past enured · past enured

1. transitiveTo inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure.
2. intransitivelawTo take effect, to be operative; used with to.

   All our striving enures to our own spiritual benefit.

   1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an, note 3428 on 29:6

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   The position of the individual as a subject of international law has often been obscured by the failure to observe the distinction between the recognition, in an international instrument of rights enuring to the benefit of the individual and the enforceability of these rights at his instance.

   1995, Rosalyn Higgins, Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It, page 53