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Definitions
a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
Word origin
From Middle English sufferaunce, from Anglo-Norman suffraunce, from Late Latin sufferentia. By surface analysis, suffer + -ance.
Used in a sentence
“At length when as he ſaw her haſtie heat / Abate, and panting breath begin to fayle, / He through long ſufferãce growing now more great, / Roſe in his strength, and gan her freſh aſſayle, [...]”
“[M]oſt wretched man, / That to affections does the bridle lend; / In their beginning they are weake and wan, / But ſoone through ſuff'rance growe to fearefull end; [...]”
“Somewhiles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favour, they erected to themselves oratories.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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