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sufferance
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Definition:state of suffering: endurance: permission: toleration;Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
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I might mingle in the circles of the whites, in this country, my shade of color is so slight, and that of my wife and family scarce perceptible. Well, perhaps, on sufferance, I might. But, to tell you the truth, I have no wish to.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within his breast that plenitude of sufferance which base minds jeer at, rash judgers scorn and all find tolerable and but tolerable.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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