A disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations.
1 Peshawur, the greatest garrison in northern India, was there on sufferance , apparently.
2 Even this ground you hold only on the sufferance of the Earthmen.
3 You were taken in here on sufferance and against my better judgment.
4 Time and tide, as they say, intoned the cardinal with lofty sufferance .
5 Yes, it incited her to worry Wilfred beyond sufferance in his holidays.
6 Hitherto their kingdom had existed precariously, and as it were by sufferance .
7 The new ministry, which existed largely on sufferance , passed some good measures.
8 She, as a woman, owed the other woman more sufferance than that.
9 Besides, this is not the king's highway; 'tis a way upon sufferance .
10 Jim Travers and Tom Gordon were occupying their single room on sufferance .
11 They don't want ladies, and we shall only be there on sufferance . '
12 To stay where he was not wanted, on a sort of sufferance - never
13 They had power, but they existed on sufferance in New Crobuzon.
14 Today, it is viewed as a privilege, which many possess only under sufferance .
15 The old lady had apparently been living on the place simply through sufferance .
16 You know we are allowed to live underground upon sufferance only.
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