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sufferance Noun on sufferance tolerated with reluctance: I was there on sufferance and all knew it
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| --Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. All the departments were full but the one I would have nothing to do with, and after a few weeks of sufferance and suffering I turned my back on a thousand dollars a year, and for the second time returned to the printing-office. The butler remained on sufferance because of his grey hairs, but the footmen, who had been rather a feature of the Anselman establishment, had departed, and their places had been filled by half a dozen of the smartest of parlourmaids, one or two of whom were still in evidence. |
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