sufferance
11sufferance — Endurance of pain or distress, physical or mental. Toleration; acquiescence. See bill of sufferance; estate by sufferance; tenancy at sufferance …
12sufferance — suf|fer|ance [ sʌf(ə)rəns ] noun on sufferance MAINLY BRITISH if you do something on sufferance, someone allows you to do it but does not really want you to do it …
13sufferance — /ˈsʌfərəns / (say sufuhruhns), /ˈsʌfrəns / (say sufruhns) noun 1. tolerance, as of a person or thing; tacit permission. 2. capacity to endure pain, hardship, etc. 3. Obsolete the suffering of pain, distress, injury, etc. 4. Obsolete patient… …
14sufferance — /saf(a)rans/ Toleration; negative permission by not forbidding; passive consent; license implied from the omission or neglect to enforce an adverse right @ sufferance wharves In old English law, wharves in which goods may be landed before any… …
15sufferance — Synonyms and related words: acceptance, allowance, authorization, connivance, consent, endurance, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, fortitude, indulgence, leave, lenience, leniency, long sufferance, long suffering, longanimity, overlooking …
16sufferance — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. toleration, fortitude, composure; see endurance 2 , patience 1 . • on sufferance, Syn. allowed, tolerated, endured; see legal 1 , permitted …
17sufferance — UK [ˈsʌf(ə)rəns] / US noun on sufferance …
18sufferance — n. 1 tacit consent, abstinence from objection. 2 archaic submissiveness. Phrases and idioms: on sufferance with toleration implied by lack of consent or objection. Etymology: ME f. AF, OF suffraunce f. LL sufferentia (as SUFFER) …
19sufferance — noun Date: 14th century 1. patient endurance 2. pain, misery 3. consent or sanction implied by a lack of interference or failure to enforce a prohibition 4. power or ability to withstand ; endurance …
20sufferance — /suf euhr euhns, suf reuhns/, n. 1. passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, esp. of something wrong or illegal (usually prec. by on or by). 2. capacity to endure pain, hardship, etc.; endurance. 3. Archaic. suffering;… …
