Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sufferance.
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- noun rare Alternative spelling of
sufferance .
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Examples
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For most Muslims there are only really three religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism and the last only exist on suffrance, under the domination of Islam.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Do you need the government a priori to grant that right, or does it exist only by their suffrance? suppose Pogo, that you also don't believe that the government should regulate who can call themselves a doctor.
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It's not "my" land except that I always walk there, but technically I'm only there on suffrance, I'm a trespasser...
the mother of apples asakiyume 2007
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This war now proceeds at their suffrance and only at their suffrance, for while the President is the Commander-in-Chief of our military, as I explained in the BloggingHeads Forum post linked above, the President goes to war with the army that Congress gives him ...
"A slogan is not a strategy." Ann Althouse 2007
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Despite protests from people like me who said that if he nerfed the build perms, it would turn each lot owner or founder into a little despot, surly and suspicious, issuing build perms on suffrance and destroying the cooperative ethic of the world, he or the company ultimately decided to create the little despot lot owners system.
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You share the distressing leftist view that all rights essentially are granted at the suffrance the state.
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Harari says that Islam does a poor job of preaching suffrance and toleration.
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Richard Bellamy: the alternative is that every sadomasochist is committing a felony and remains free only at the suffrance of the authorities.
Boyfriend Gets Life Sentence Under “Fetal Protection” Law 2005
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"The latest fuel hikes will mean more Zimbabweans will be forced to go without food and travel by foot, adding another level of suffrance to their daily grind," lamented Ncube.
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It was no synthetic thing - not as if someone had invoked a peace and peace then was allowed to exist by suffrance.
Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963
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