sufferance
pronunciation
How to pronounce sufferance in British English:
UK [ˈsʌfərəns]
How to pronounce sufferance in American English:
US [ˈsʌfərəns, ˈsʌfrəns]
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- Noun:
- patient endurance especially of pain or distress
- a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
Word Origin
- sufferance (n.)
- c. 1300, "enduring of hardship, affliction, etc.," also "allowance of wrongdoing," from Old French suffrance, from Late Latin sufferentia, from sufferens, present participle of sufferre "to bear, undergo, endure" (see suffer).
Example
- 1. He felt himself to be there on sufferance .
- 2. He has been allowed to live in the house on sufferance .
- 3. If a christian wrong a jew , what should his sufferance be by christian example ?
- 4. He 's only staying here on sufferance .
- 5. She is here on sufferance .