Definition of Sufferances

1. Noun. (plural of sufferance) ¹

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Definition of Sufferances

1. sufferance [n] - See also: sufferance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sufferances

suevitic
suey
suf-
sufentanil
suffari
suffaris
suffect
suffer
suffer'd
suffer fools gladly
sufferable
sufferableness
sufferably
sufferage
sufferance
sufferances (current term)
sufferation
sufferations
sufferaunce
suffered
sufferer
sufferers
sufferest
suffereth
suffering
suffering catfish
suffering cats
suffering succotash
sufferingly
sufferings

Literary usage of Sufferances

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ellis's British Tariff for by Robert Ellis (1832)
"That passengers' baggage, unaccompanied by the proprietor, be landed under Baggage sufferances, in conformity with the Board's Minutes of the 17th May, ..."

2. Ellis's British Tariff for by Robert Ellis (1845)
"That passengers' baggage, accompanied by the proprietor, be brought to the warehouse without sufferances, in charge of the proper officer, as at present. ..."

3. The British Tariff for ...: Contains Amended Tables of the Duties Payable on by Edwin Beedell (1848)
"That passengers' baggage, accompanied by the proprietor, be brought to the warehouse without sufferances, in charge of the proper officer, ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Vendor and Purchaser of Real Estate and Chattels by Thomas Cyprian Williams, John Frederick Iselin (1906)
"Conv., omissions and sufferances; Sug. 4th ed. P. 885. And see Sug. V. & P. (/•) Thus covenants against the 599—604, 610—615; 2 Dart, V. acts of all persons ..."

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