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† suffretous, a. Obs.
Also 5 suffretouse, -ateuse, -atous.
[a. OF. suffretous, -aitous (mod.F. souffreteux), = Pr. sofrachos; f. suffraite (see prec.).]
Needy, in want, miserable.
c1450Merlin xiii. 201 He knoweth beste the pore and the suffretouse. 1481Caxton Godfrey ccix. 306 The hoost..were but fewe and suffretous by cause they had no shippes. 1490― Eneydos i. 13 Now was that pyetous cyte..putte in desolacyon suffretous. 1491― Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. xli. 64 b/2 Tyll that thou haste dystrybuted alle thyse goodes..to the suffretous, poore and nedy. |