An archaic or dialectal spelling of 'end,' referring to the final point or conclusion of something.
Old English 'ende' is the original form of the modern word 'end,' inherited from Proto-Germanic '*andija.' The modern spelling with a silent 'e' developed over centuries of English language evolution.
If you read Chaucer or other Middle English texts, you'll see 'ende' everywhere—it's the same word as 'end' but spelled the way people actually pronounced it back then, with a slight vowel sound at the end.
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