Literary notes about Inure (AI summary)
The word "inure" in literature has been used to express the idea of becoming accustomed or acclimatized to hardship or challenging circumstances. For instance, in Francis Bacon’s work [1], it is employed metaphorically to describe how a prince might condition less noble individuals into serving as instruments against the overly ambitious, while Jane Austen’s narrative [2] shows a character recognizing the necessity of becoming habituated to a daunting situation. Benito Pérez Galdós [3] extends the meaning by equating inure with the broader concept of acclimatization or familiarization, and Marcus Aurelius [4] advises that such conditioning can alleviate much suffering. Diogenes Laertius [5] even portrays inurance as a means to consciously prepare oneself for enduring hardship, highlighting the term’s evolution from figurative encouragement to a pragmatic approach for enduring life’s adversities.
- At the least, a prince may animate and inure some meaner persons to be, as it were, scourges to ambitious men.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon - She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen - connaturalizar r inure, acclimatize, familiarize; ( not in A. ) establish.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós - If you would but inure yourself to do the like, you would be eased of many a torment.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius - And in the summer he’d a shaggy gown, To inure himself to hardship: in the winter He wore mere rags.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
