sufferance

[US]/'sʌf(ə)r(ə)ns/
[UK]/'sʌfərəns/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. endurance

Phrases & Collocations

endure sufferance

bear sufferance

tolerate sufferance

undergo sufferance

painful sufferance

patient sufferance

Example Sentences

Charles was only here on sufferance .

Do Hoang Tuong (born in 1960) offers oils on canvas where the woman is more than simply present, imposing herself on the canvas, and above all, her sufferance and solitude transpierce us.

to bear sufferance in silence

to test one's sufferance

to push someone to the limits of sufferance

to show sufferance towards others

Real-world Examples

Maybe for the others they were a sufferance, but not for him.

Source: A man named Ove decides to die.

An O'Hara a poor relation, living on charity bread and sufferance!

Source: Gone with the Wind

O, let me suffer, being at your beck, The imprison'd absence of your liberty; And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check, Without accusing you of injury.

Source: The complete original version of the sonnet.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

Source: English speech

That " The poor beetle, which we tread upon, " In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great " As when a giant dies" .

Source: Northanger Abbey (original version)

The monks seemed to stay on sufferance, as though they awaited a notice to quit; and in the smile of the abbot, with his beautiful politeness, was the irony of resignation.

Source: Veil

Only slowly and on sufferance were they admitted to the province; but when once they were even covertly tolerated, they pressed steadily in, until, by the Revolution, they outnumbered the adherents of the established order.

Source: American history

But when democracy is sovereign, its doubters say, nobility will form a sort of invisible church, and sincerity and refinement, stripped of honor, precedence, and favor, will have to vegetate on sufferance in private corners.

Source: Southwest Associated University English Textbook

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