Sufferance meaning
- Allowed or tolerated but not supported or encouraged.
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of sufferance
- Middle English suffrance from Old French sufrance from Latin sufferentia from sufferēns sufferent- present participle of sufferre to suffer suffer
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Anglo-Norman suffraunce, from Late Latin sufferentia.
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