| 单词 | on sufferance |
| 释义 | > as lemmason (also upon, formerly † by) sufferance d. on (also upon, formerly † by) sufferance: by virtue of a tacit assent but without express permission; under conditions of passive acquiescence or bare tolerance. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [phrase] > permitted by non-intervention on (also upon, formerly by) sufferance1562 1562 T. Cooper Answere Def. Truth f. 62, in Apol. Priuate Masse Neither those thinges, which some did..vppon simplicitie by sufferance, should be brought as testimonies, what the church..ought..to doo. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 2 Sept. 169 The ignominy of living by sufferance. 1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia I. i. i. 55 It is humiliating to me to know that I woo clandestinely and upon sufferance. 1864 M. E. Braddon Henry Dunbar xii. 91 I will not accept my liberty on sufferance. 1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxiii. 186 They were a Ministry on sufferance when they appealed to the country. < as lemmas |
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