enduring

Etymology

adj

1. Long-lasting without significant alteration; continuing through time in the same relative state.
   an enduring belief in democracy

verb

1. present participle and gerund of endure

noun

1. endurance
   It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise[…] 1854, James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians, page 14