Word Meanings - SUFFRANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sufferance. Chaucer.

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• SUFFERANCE
  souffrance, L. sufferentia, from sufferens, -entis, p.pr. of 1. The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance. He must not only die the death, But thy unkindness shall his death draw out To lingering sufferance. Shak. 2. Pain endured;
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.