sufferance
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From Anglo-Norman suffraunce, from Late Latin sufferentia.
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sufferance (plural sufferances)
- (archaic) Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.
- 1826, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man, ch. 4,
- I indulged in this meditation for a moment, and then again addressed the mourner, who stood leaning against the bed with that expression of resigned despair, of complete misery, and a patient sufferance of it, which is far more touching than any of the insane ravings or wild gesticulation of untamed sorrow.
- 1826, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man, ch. 4,
- Acquiescence or tacit compliance with some circumstance, behavior, or instruction.
- 1910, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Lady Good-for-Nothing, ch. 20,
- When his talk trespasses beyond sufferance, I chastise him.
- 1910, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Lady Good-for-Nothing, ch. 20,
- (archaic) Suffering; pain, misery.
- 1603, John Florio, traslating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.37:
- The sufferances which simply touch us in minde, doe much lesse afflict me, then most men [...].
- 1612, William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, act 2, sc. 3,
- 'Tis a sufferance panging / As soul and body's severing.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.147:
- the streak / Of sufferance yet upon his forehead lay, / Where the blue veins looked shadowy, shrunk, and weak [...].
- 1603, John Florio, traslating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.37:
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