A grievous . . . sufferance on most part of their fleet.
Shak.
4. Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience;
moderation. Chaucer.
But hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise.
Spenser.
5. Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration;
permission; allowance; leave. Shak.
In their beginning they are weak and wan, But soon, through
sufferance, grow to fearful end.
Spenser.
Somewhiles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and
favor, they erected to themselves oratories.
Hooker.
6. A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of
goods. [Eng.]
Estate of sufferance (Law), the holding by a tenant who came in by a
lawful title, but remains, after his right has expired, without
positive leave of the owner. Blackstone. -- On sufferance, by mere
toleration; as, to remain in a house on sufferance.
Syn. -- Endurance; pain; misery; inconvenience; patience; moderation;
toleration; permission.
Suf"fer*er (?), n. 1. One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes
suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by
poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.