Definitions for sufferance

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sufferance suf·fer·ance

Spelling: [suhf-er-uh ns, suhf-ruh ns]

IPA: /ˈsʌf ər əns, ˈsʌf rəns/

Sufferance is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 472 anagrams from letters in sufferance (aceeffnrsu).

Definitions for sufferance

noun

1. passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
2. capacity to endure pain, hardship, etc.; endurance.
3. Archaic. suffering; misery.
4. Archaic. patient endurance.

Origin of sufferance

1250-1300; Middle English suffrance Old French soufrance, Late Latin sufferentia, equivalent to suffer(re) to suffer + -entia -ence,

Examples for sufferance

If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be, by Christian example?

The British, he said, were usurpers and only there on sufferance.

Having no tenure, and his future career being at the sufferance of her political enemies, objectively he lacked independence.

Would the society in which I move be reminded that they accept me on sufferance?

All others, so far as she was concerned, existed only on the sufferance of remoteness.

It wasn't Abbot who endorsed him at all, except by silence and sufferance, you may say.

Even this ground you hold only on the sufferance of the Earthmen.

"You forget that I saw all these things, as it were, on sufferance," replied she.

We are outlaws in the dear land that is ours; we dwell on sufferance where our fathers ruled!

It was hard to realize that he could see Blent now only by another's will or sufferance.