acceptance, connivance, forbearance, fortitude, lenience, long-suffering, patience, permit, self-control, tolerance, waiting it out
Definitionn. patient endurance especially of pain or distress
Last update: July 8, 2015
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He's only here on sufferance. [Please select]
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The Roman nobility, resting wholly on sufferance, was overthrown by the ambition of one of its own members. [Please select]
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ON SUFFERANCE 66 VI. [Please select]
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At the end of that time we will have another talk, but you are here now only on your good behavior and on my sufferance. [Please select]
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They could hardly have been ignorant of "Robinson's," whose master was only received into the upper-class houses of the town on a species of sufferance. [Please select]
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Though the tent-dweller might be hospitable to a guest, an alien had no rights except on sufferance. [Please select]
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Otherwise she exists solely upon the sufferance of any nation that can wrest from her the supremacy of the sea. [Please select]
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