Sufferance
['sʌf(ə)r(ə)ns] or ['sʌfərəns]
Definition
(n.) The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance.
(n.) Pain endured; misery; suffering; distress.
(n.) Loss; damage; injury.
(n.) Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation.
(n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.
(n.) A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.
Edited by Debra
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Suffering.[2]. Patience, moderation, long-suffering.[3]. Permission, allowance, toleration.
Typist: Vance
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Toleration, permission, allowance, endurance, moderation, self-control,long_suffering, patience
ANT:Prohibition, resistance, nonendurance, impatience, insubmission
Checked by Antoine
Examples
- Well, perhaps, on sufferance, I might. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Might not her mother take advantage of Adrian's absence to urge her beyond her sufferance, perhaps to entrap her? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But she holds it on sufferance and by a complimentary construction of language which does not refer to her. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The therns know that they live at all only by the sufferance of the black men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Editor: Randolph