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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: sufferance (0.00781 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to sufferance.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sufferance sufferance n 1: patient endurance especially of pain or distress 2: a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations; “all people should practice toleration and live together in peace” [syn: toleration, acceptance]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sufferance Sufferance \Suf"fer*ance\, n. [OE. suffrance, OF. sufrance, soufrance, F. souffrance, L. sufferentia, from sufferens, -entis, p. pr. of sufferre. See Suffer.] 1. The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance. [1913 Webster] He must not only die the death, But thy unkindness shall his death draw out To lingering sufferance. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Pain endured; misery; suffering; distress. [1913 Webster] The seeming sufferances that you had borne. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Loss; damage; injury. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A grievous . . . sufferance on most part of their fleet. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] But hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 5. Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave. --Shak. [1913 Webster] In their beginning they are weak and wan, But soon, through sufferance, grow to fearful end. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Somewhiles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 6. A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] Estate of sufferance (Law), the holding by a tenant who came in by a lawful title, but remains, after his right has expired, without positive leave of the owner. --Blackstone. On sufferance, by mere toleration; as, to remain in a house on sufferance. [1913 Webster] Syn: Endurance; pain; misery; inconvenience; patience; moderation; toleration; permission. [1913 Webster]

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