Verb (used with object) : inured to cold. From Dictionary.com.
The law prohibits the head of a tax-exempt organisation from enjoying unusual perks or compensation; it's called inurement. From Wordnik.com. [What happens when you try to leave the Church of Scientology?] Reference
Oscar was amazed in spite of his inurement to surprises. From Wordnik.com. [Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field] Reference
There was little physical and mental inurement to cold, and the lightest of clothing was worn. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
Elric spared a look towards the corner and shud - dered despite his inurement to hell-born horror. From Wordnik.com. [The Weird of the White Wolf]
If this concern is founded, one consequence could be the growing inurement of the KMT to U.S. pressure or interests. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
• Mrs. Roberts was informed that these unilateral scholarship awards might constitute inurement, as she often received significant "thank you" gifts from the recipients or their parents. From Wordnik.com. [10/20/2007] Reference
Poor governance practices can lead to lax tax compliance especially in the areas of compensation and related party transactions, both of which have significant inurement and private benefit implications. From Wordnik.com. [Grassley provides update on probe of ministries, including Copeland’s and Hinn’s] Reference
This may apparently be explained as being based on inurement. From Wordnik.com. [Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated] Reference
He admits inurement to the remedy within certain limits only. From Wordnik.com. [Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated] Reference
It is sui generis, or becomes so after a period of inurement. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
– a complete prohibition on inurement of net earnings to insiders. From Wordnik.com. [Grassley provides update on probe of ministries, including Copeland’s and Hinn’s] Reference
You are compensated with a salary, not internal entitlements and liberties for personal inurement and benefit!. From Wordnik.com. [wacotrib - Latest News Headlines] Reference
So habituated are they to this mode of life from constant inurement, they appear to have no conception of a better one. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
Their exclusion from public life and inurement to heavy male labour give the women all the more power and importance in the household. From Wordnik.com. [The Cossacks] Reference
These entities, he cautioned, should avoid engaging in "private inurement," or providing excessive benefit to a person who is close to or has a controlling interest in a nonprofit. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Long inurement to the various and roving life of her lover, joined to a certain pride which she derived from conscious, though forfeited, rank, gave to the outward manner of that beautiful lady an ease and freedom which often concealed, even from Montreal, her sensitiveness to her unhappy situation. From Wordnik.com. [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference
And this constancy in armor should not be accounted a vanity; it was a habit acquired in the school of arms which graduated him, and which he persisted in partly for the inurement, and partly as a mark of respect for Mahommed, with whom the gleam and clink of steel well fashioned and gracefully worn was a passion, out of which he evolved a suite rivalling those kinsmen of the Buccleuch who. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
Nor can they give a financial advantage to the organization’s insiders — a practice known as inurement. From Wordnik.com. [Blurring the Line] Reference
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