sufferance

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.

   • 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, [...]
2. 2

   Acquiescence or tacit compliance with some circumstance, behavior, or instruction.

   • [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.
   • When his talk trespasses beyond sufferance, I chastise him.
3. 3

   Suffering

   Suffering; pain, misery.

   • The sufferances which simply touch us in minde, doe much lesse afflict me, then most men [...].
   • Fortune, do diuorce / It from the bearer, 'tis a ſufferance, panging / As ſoule and bodies ſeuering.
   • [T]he streak / Of sufferance yet upon his forehead lay, / Where the blue veins look'd shadowy, shrunk, and weak; [...]
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   1. 4

      Loss

      Loss; damage; injury.

      • The deſperate Tempeſt has ſo bang'd the Turke, / That their deſignement halts; Another ſhippe of Venice hath ſeene / A greeuous wracke and ſufferance / On moſt part of the Fleete.
   2. 5

      A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.

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