sufferance
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman suffraunce, from Late Latin sufferentia.
Pronunciation
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Noun
sufferance (countable and uncountable, plural sufferances)
- (archaic) Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.
- Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)
- but hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise
- 1826, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man, chapter 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.
- Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)
- Acquiescence or tacit compliance with some circumstance, behavior, or instruction.
- Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599)
- In their beginning they are weak and wan, / But soon, through sufferance, grow to fearful end.
- Richard Hooker (1554-1600)
- Somewhiles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favour, they erected to themselves oratories.
- 1910, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Lady Good-for-Nothing, chapter 20:
- When his talk trespasses beyond sufferance, I chastise him.
- Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599)
- (archaic) Suffering; pain, misery.
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- 1612, William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, act 2, scene 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 […].
- (obsolete) Loss; damage; injury.
- William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616)
- a grievous […] sufferance on most part of their fleet
- William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616)
- (UK, historical) A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.
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Synonyms
References
The noun sufferance is listed in following dictionaries:
- sufferance in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “sufferance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sufferance”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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- “sufferance” in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
- “sufferance”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “sufferance” in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- “sufferance”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “sufferance” at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006).
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