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Meanings of sufferance in inglês

português
tolerância
espanhol
tolerancia

A disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations.

tolerância
Synonyms
Examples for "acceptance"
Examples for "acceptance"
1
Netanyahu voiced conditional acceptance in 2009 of a future demilitarized Palestinian state.
Reuters
2
She often speaks at high schools about body image and body acceptance.
The South African
3
The other problem was a reluctant acceptance of the financial logic involved.
The Irish Times
4
He represented everything she needed: acceptance, forgiveness, a safe place to land.
The lonely polygamist: a novel
5
Entry into the competition is deemed acceptance of these terms and conditions.
News.com.au
1
The result of the scheme of toleration was an increase in disorder.
A Short History of Scotland
2
It heightens pleasure enormously, to say nothing of the increase in toleration.
The Status Civilization
3
The distinction between civil toleration and theological toleration is vain and childish.
Emile
4
The Pacification of Ghent had found the door open to religious toleration.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 27: 1577-78
5
There is a greatness in modern toleration which our ancestors knew not.
Friends in Council — First Series
Usage of sufferance in inglês
1
Peshawur, the greatest garrison in northern India, was there on sufferance, apparently.
Rung Ho! A Novel
2
Even this ground you hold only on the sufferance of the Earthmen.
Giants on the Earth
3
You were taken in here on sufferance and against my better judgment.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
4
Time and tide, as they say, intoned the cardinal with lofty sufferance.
Hood
5
Yes, it incited her to worry Wilfred beyond sufferance in his holidays.
The Long Vacation
6
Hitherto their kingdom had existed precariously, and as it were by sufferance.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6: ...
7
The new ministry, which existed largely on sufferance, passed some good measures.
The Grand Old Man / Or, the Life and Public Services of the Righ...
8
She, as a woman, owed the other woman more sufferance than that.
The Brentons
9
Besides, this is not the king's highway; 'tis a way upon sufferance.
A Journal of the Plague Year / Written by a Citizen Who Continue...
10
Jim Travers and Tom Gordon were occupying their single room on sufferance.
Brave Tom; Or, The Battle That Won
11
They don't want ladies, and we shall only be there on sufferance.'
Robert Elsmere
12
To stay where he was not wanted, on a sort of sufferance-never
Saint's Progress
13
They had power, but they existed on sufferance in New Crobuzon.
Perdido Street Station
14
Today, it is viewed as a privilege, which many possess only under sufferance.
The Guardian
15
The old lady had apparently been living on the place simply through sufferance.
The Blind Spot
16
You know we are allowed to live underground upon sufferance only.
Immortality Inc.
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Translations for sufferance
português
tolerância
espanhol
tolerancia
Sufferance through the time
Sufferance across language varieties
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