sufferance

suf·fer·ance

1. Patient endurance, especially of pain or distress.
2. Suffering; misery.
3. Sanction or permission implied or given by failure to prohibit; tacit consent; tolerance.

Origin: Middle English suffrance, from Old French sufrance, from Latin sufferentia, from sufferēns, sufferent-, present participle of sufferre, to suffer; see suffer .