sufferance
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sufferance
- /ˈsʌf(ə)ɹəns/ UK
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From Middle English sufferaunce, from Anglo-Norman suffraunce, from Late Latin sufferentia. By surface analysis, suffer + -ance.
noun sufferances · sufferaunce
- Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity. At length when as he ſaw her haſtie heat / Abate, and panting breath begin to fayle, / He through long ſufferãce growing now more great, / Roſe in his strength, and gan her freſh aſſayle, [...]
- Acquiescence or tacit compliance with some circumstance, behavior, or instruction. [M]oſt wretched man, / That to affections does the bridle lend; / In their beginning they are weake and wan, / But ſoone through ſuff'rance growe to fearefull end; [...]
- Suffering; pain, misery. The sufferances which simply touch us in minde, doe much lesse afflict me, then most men [...].
- Loss; damage; injury. The deſperate Tempeſt has ſo bang'd the Turke, / That their deſignement halts; Another ſhippe of Venice hath ſeene / A greeuous wracke and ſufferance / On moſt part of the Fleete.
- A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.
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title = {sufferance},
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