endura
endura — 名詞
1. a religious practice among the medieval Cathars, in which a believer stopped eat
絕食殉道
純潔派教徒絕食至死的宗教苦行
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.
Sofia 撰寫了她的歷史論文，主題是 endura 以及純潔派信徒如何實行它。
The endura required a person to stop eating until death finally came.
endura 要求一個人停止進食，直到死亡最終到來。
the endura required someone to + bare action
During the lecture, Kabir described the endura as the Cathars' deadly act of faith.
演講中，Kabir 把 endura 描述為純潔派信徒致命的信仰行為。
Medieval priests feared the endura because it caused devout followers to starve themselves.
中世紀的神職人員害怕 endura，因為它使虔誠的信徒活活餓死自己。
The museum display explained the endura, a fast that ended in the believer's death.
博物館的展示說明了 endura，這是一種以信徒死亡告終的絕食。
- 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
用法筆記
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.