endura
endura — noun
1. a religious practice among the medieval Cathars, in which a believer stopped eat
a religious practice among the medieval Cathars, in which a believer stopped eating completely so as to die free from sin.
Sofia wrote her history thesis on the endura and how Cathar believers used it.
The endura required a person to stop eating until death finally came.
the endura required someone to + bare action
During the lecture, Kabir described the endura as the Cathars' deadly act of faith.
Medieval priests feared the endura because it caused devout followers to starve themselves.
The museum display explained the endura, a fast that ended in the believer's death.
- ritual fasting
any religious giving-up of food; the endura meant fasting all the way to death
- self-starvation
names only the physical act, without the Cathar goal of dying in a pure state
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Almost always written with 'the' and confined to history or religious-studies contexts; it does not describe a modern protest fast or a personal diet.