sufferance
IPA: sˈʌfɝʌns
noun
- (archaic) Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.
- Acquiescence or tacit compliance with some circumstance, behavior, or instruction.
- (archaic) Suffering; pain, misery.
- (obsolete) Loss; damage; injury.
- (Britain, historical) A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.
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Examples of "sufferance" in Sentences
- Sunday's term was tenancy at sufferance, which is defined as:
- The sufferance which is the badge of the Jew has made him in these days the ruler of the rulers of the earth. "
- The sufferance, which is the badge of the Jew, has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.
- 'sufferance' is used in its ordinary modern sense. --/the time's abuse:/the miserable condition of things in the present.
- The leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, Is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; Our sufferance is a gain to them.
- Confederacy, and he would have been supported by earnest and enduring enthusiasm, instead of by that churlish sufferance which is the result of
- If they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them.
- The inhabitants seem insensible to these impressions, and are apt to imagine the disgust that we avow is little better than affectation; but they ought to have some compassion for strangers, who have not been used to this kind of sufferance; and consider, whether it may not be worth while to take some pains to vindicate themselves from the reproach that, on this account, they bear among their neighbours.
- What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
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