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Sufferance
Sufferance meaning
Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity. | Acquiescence or tacit compliance with some circumstance, behavior, or instruction. | Suffering; pain, misery.
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Example sentences (4)
Even those who clung to their careers enough to vote with him later in the day would now do so only under sufferance as it dawned on them just how badly they had been mis-sold.
If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?
Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.
Those who see the speech as sympathetic point out that Shylock says he learned the desire for revenge from the Christian characters: "If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?