resufferv.
/riːˈsʌfə/, U.S. /riˈsəfər/ intransitive and transitive. To suffer again.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > be painful [verb (intransitive)] > suffer pain > again
resuffer1548
1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Gviiv Not..yt the lord in very dede agayne ryseth in thone and resuffreth in thother.
c1600 Timon (1842) v. v. 93 Euery agent doth resuffer in his action. Wilt thou giue? so thou shalt receaue: wilt thou receaue? then giue.
1683 R. Browne tr. D. M. Arrais Arbor Vitæ vii. 81 in tr. R. Bacon Cure of Old Age The inferior Agent ought to re-suffer from the stronger, that which resists with only two Degrees of Cold, from the Action of the Superior, acting at the Rate of eight Degrees of Heat.
1700 tr. H. M. Herwig Art of Curing Sympathetically App. 102 The Elements..mutually act and re-act, suffer and re-suffer, in an apparent manner.
1834 Proposal for Improving Condition of Working Classes 5 Dooming us to re-suffer another long and lingering penance.
1879 D. Wingate Lily Neil 125 The long suspense Till she her eyes had opened came again To be resuffered.
1909 H. C. Sawyer Matter with Nervousness xxxviii. 151 But ten thousand nervous men and women suffer fear, doubt, discouragement—and re-suffer it—again and again.
1960 Western Polit. Q. 13 865 The wordmen, generation after generation, seem each to resuffer Plato's disillusion.
2005 O: Oprah Mag. (Nexis) May 28 The task in adulthood is to remember and to resuffer what we couldn't really suffer as children because it was too painful then.
Derivatives
re-ˈsufferance n. rare
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the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun] > action of suffering > again
re-sufferance1865
1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys xxv. 241 A certain quick spasm of keen re-sufferance came over her.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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