sufferancen.
/ˈsʌfərəns/ I. Senses relating to patience or suffering.† 3. (tr. Latin passio.) Passivity, receptivity. Obsolete.† 5. Capacity to endure, endurance. of bare sufferance, barely endurable. Obsolete.
1. Patient endurance, forbearance, long-suffering. archaic. (See also long-sufferance n.)
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > long-suffering
sufferancea1300
sufferinga1340
longanimityc1400
long-sufferancec1405
long-suffering1496
patiencec1500
endurance1600
enduring1603
endurementa1716
a1300 Cursor Mundi 29106 Þe preist..Agh to sceu þe, sinful man, þat he ta sli thing in sufferance, To stand him in stede o penance.
c1330 Speculum Guy 571 Houre swete lord..bad hem ben of god suffraunce In alle manere destourbaunce.
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1106 For oure beste is al his [sc. God's] gouernance; Lat vs thanne lyue in vertuous suffrance.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 417 Wel knew I þi cortaysye, þi quoynt soffraunce.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 214 God, forto preue hym and his meke suffrance, made hym blynd.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. iii. sig. Bvii Where vertue is in a gentyll man, it is commenly mixte with more suffraunce..than..it is in a persone rural.
a1596 Sir Thomas More (1911) iii. i. 173 That awefull Iustice, Which looketh through a vaile of sufferaunce Uppon the frailtie of the multitude.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 2 I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance.
1680 T. Otway Orphan i. 4 Bear it With all the suff'rance of a tender Friend.
2. † b. The suffering of a penalty. Obsolete.† c. Damage, injury. Obsolete. rare.
a. The suffering or undergoing of pain, trouble, wrong, etc. archaic.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun] > action of suffering
sufferingc1340
tholinga1400
sufferance1426
pain taking1528
sustaining1594
underbearing1597
perpessiona1603
undergoing1612
enduring1659
squirming1804
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 7486 Lyk a myghty champyoun, Thow shalt with laurer crownyd be, By suffraunce off adversyte.
?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iii. xx. 212 From the houre of my byrthe vnto my deth vpon the crosse, I neuer cessed of suffraunce of peynes.
1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 219/2 Yf a man..after repenting his sin would..willyngly offer hym selfe to the sufferaunce of open shame.
1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye (1823) 16 His..sufferaunce of deathe for mankynde.
1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. 156 Vnder pain of eternall damnation, or sufferance of greater thirst in hell.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. v. 113 To glory in the quiet sufferance of ills.
1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 295 The Holy Catholic Church..has been exempt from the sufferance of persecution for these fifteen hundred years.
1857 H. Bonar in Hymns faith & Hope 169 Calm in the sufferance of wrong.
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society > authority > punishment > [noun] > receiving or suffering
pain takinga1382
sufferance1599
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 57 The Cardinalles..held this suffocation a meete sufferance for so contemning the king of fishes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. ii. 155 God be thanked for preuention, Which [I] in sufferance heartily will reioyce.
1640 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 18 Dec. 22 I proceed to his second sufferance, which was by the Vice-chancellour of Oxford.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun]
harmOE
tinsela1340
damagec1374
offensiona1382
pairmentc1384
wrongc1384
offencec1385
wrackc1407
lesion?a1425
ruin1467
prejudicec1485
domager1502
qualm1513
jacture1515
imblemishment1529
perishment1540
impeachment1548
blame1549
dommagie1556
execution1581
damagement1603
sufferancea1616
stroy1682
murder1809
punishment1839
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 23 Another shippe of Venice hath seene A greeuous wracke and sufferance On most part of the Fleete.
1823 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 369 The trappings of such a machinery..by the inequalities they produced, exposed liberty to sufferance.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > [noun]
sufferancec1374
passibilitya1398
passibleness?a1425
sense1536
resentment1640
impressiveness1663
impressibility1751
susceptibility1782
responsiveness1791
impressionability1835
affectability1836
affectivity1854
responsivitya1856
impressionableness1858
suscipiency1885
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) v. met. iv. 167 Þe passioun þat is to seyn þe suffraunce or þe wit in þe quike body.
4. † b. plural = suffering n. 3b. Obsolete.
a. = suffering n. 3. archaic.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun]
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acheeOE
wrakeOE
trayOE
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pinec1200
sorrowc1225
teenc1225
grievousness1303
dolec1320
balea1325
painc1330
warkingc1340
dolour?c1370
sufferance1422
offencea1425
angerc1440
sufferingc1450
penalty?1462
penality1496
grief1509
stress1533
sufferance1597
somatalgia1607
suffering1609
tort1632
miserya1825
1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 169 In full grete Sufferaunce haue I be so many Ieris.
c1485 Digby Myst. iii. 864 Alle þis xall be þe soferons of my deite.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes For Good Friday i Not that the sufferaunce of thys transitory lyfe, shoulde be worthy of that glory to come.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iv. 167 Thy vnkindnesse shall his death draw out To lingring sufferance . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 78 The poore Beetle that we treade vpon In corporall sufferance, finds a pang as great, As when a Giant dies. View more context for this quotation
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 13 (note) A most resupine patience in their sufferance.
1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue ii. ii. 186 To see the sufferance of an Enemy with cruel delight, may be from the height of Anger, Revenge, Fear, and other extended Self-passions.
1795 J. Bentham Supply without Burthen 38 It can save me..from ideal hardship, but not from corporal sufferance.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xx. 306 Nature exhausted by sufferance.
1861 J. A. Alexander Gospel Jesus Christ vii. 100 She looked back, and became a pillar of salt, perhaps without a pang of corporal sufferance.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun]
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acheeOE
wrakeOE
trayOE
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grievousness1303
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offencea1425
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penalty?1462
penality1496
grief1509
stress1533
sufferance1597
somatalgia1607
suffering1609
tort1632
miserya1825
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlviii. 98 To say he knewe not what waight of sufferances his heauenly Father had measured vnto him is somewhat hard.
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxxii. sig. Y6 There is a Sympathie of soules..which makes them sensible of one anothers sufferances.
1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. vi. 211 How joyous our Champion and Soto were to behold this Mansion..let those that have been sensible of their sufferances relate.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > long-suffering > capacity for
sufferance1544
outbearing1605
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > relating to agony or torment > causing agony or torment
sharpc1000
grievousc1290
smartc1300
fellc1330
unsufferablea1340
keena1375
poignantc1390
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
stoutc1425
unbearablec1449
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
cruciable1578
raging1590
tormentuous1597
pungent1598
racking1598
acute1615
wrenching1618
excruciating1664
grinding1681
excruciate1773
discruciating1788
unendurable1801
of bare sufferance1823
perialgic1893
1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre ii. lxx. sig. L viij Nothynge is so vnweldable, that by manlye prowes, and sufferaunce, may not be conquered and vndertroden.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. xi. 58 This melancholike humor..maketh sufferance of torments.
1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vii. viii. 62 The two chiefest parts of a soldier, Valour and Sufferance.
a1625 J. Fletcher Island Princesse ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnn2/2 I nere saw before A man of such a sufferance; he lies now Where I would not lay my dog, for sure 'twou'd kill him.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxvii. 160 This is a Burthen too heavy for humane Sufferance.
1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane iv. i Griefs beyond a mortal Sufferance.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 139 Give it a heat to the temperature of bare sufferance to the hand.
II. Senses relating to permission or toleration.† 8. Suspension, delay; respite. (Chiefly after Old French or medieval Latin) Obsolete.
6. † c. Of God: frequently in the formula by the sufferance of God = by divine permission. Obsolete.Cf. Anglo-Norman par divine soeffrance.† e. An instance of this, a licence. Obsolete.
a. Sanction, consent, or acquiescence, implied by non-intervention; permission, leave; toleration, indulgence. Now rare except as in 6d.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > permission by non-intervention or toleration
sufferancea1300
allowancea1402
tholance1446
tholing1457
sufferingc1460
low1535
connivinga1648
Nelson eye1893
a1300 Cursor Mundi 747 Wit his suffrance he it lete.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 12365 Hyt was but suffraunce, Nat hys wyl, nat hys ordynaunce.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 80 And therfore hath this wise worthy knyght To lyue in ese suffraunce hir bihight.
1464 Cov. Leet Bk. 323 Maruayllyng gretely not only the presumpcion of the said persones, but also of your suffrance in that partie.
1488 Maldon (Essex) Liber B f. 39 The barreris, gate, and fence there stondith at the sufferance of the tovne.
1554 Act 1 & 2 Philip & Mary c. 11 §1 Coines..of other Realmes..by the suffrance and consent of the King and Quene..be currant in paiment within this Realme.
1566 L. Wager Life & Repentaunce Marie Magdalene sig. Bii Of parentes the tender and carnall sufferance, Is to yong maidens a very pestilence.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 187 Nought aske I, but onely to holde my right: Submitting me to your good sufferaunce.
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iii. iv. 158 That easinesse, and too much sufferance toward your Nobility..hath betrayed the chiefe strength of your Kingdome.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. 87 They subsist and are admitted in England, not by any right of their own, but upon bare sufferance and toleration from the municipal laws [etc.].
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. iv. 421 The Company.. possessing their privileges through his sufferance, and owing obedience to his throne.
1855 J. S. C. Abbott Hist. Napoleon II. xiii. 221 The supplies of his troops, the advance of his re-enforcements,..and his retreat in case of diaster, all depended upon their sufferance.
1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. iii. 95 The temporary occupation of the common tribe-land tends to become permanent, either through the tacit sufferance or the active consent of the tribesmen.
b. Const. of (that which is allowed or tolerated), to with infinitive. †sufferance of peace, a grant of peace, truce.
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?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 6461 In þe sufferance of pes [Fr. En suffraunce de pees].
1463–4 Rolls of Parl. V. 506/1 The sufferaunce wherof hath caused grete ydelnes.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. sig. N.iiv Dispersyng them for slaues among many sundry countreyes of his, very farre from their own, without any sufferance of regresse.
1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) iii. vii. f. 106 Justice exalteth the people: but sufferance to sinne, maketh the people moste wretched & miserable.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ix. 525/1 The too-patient sufferance of some forraine greeuances.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 854/2 Their offer, and sufferance to carry with them many voluntary English souldiers.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Sufferentia Pacis,..a Sufferance or Grant, of Peace or Truce.]
1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story v Young ladies had been brought, from dislike to sufferance of a man, from sufferance to partiality.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > permission by non-intervention or toleration > of God
sufferancec1386
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 551 Peyne is sent by the rightwys sonde of god, and by his suffrance.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xvii. 76 It befell thurgh þe sufferaunce of Godd þat sudaynely he fell to grete mischeffe.
1439 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 64 Patrike be the souerance of God Abbot of Halyrudhouse.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xviii. xix. 760 Sythen hit is the sufferaunce of god that I shalle dye for the loue of soo noble a knyghte.
1477 MS. Rawl. B. 332 lf. 42 I purpose with Goddis sufferaunce for to be here with you in my proper persone.
1528 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 497 I shall provide, by the soverance of God, that [etc.].
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 25 §1 Thomas and Edwarde by the sufferaunce of God Archebishops of..Caunterbury and Yorke.
1559 T. Phaer Boke of Presidentes (new ed.) 8 Thomas by diuine suffraunce archbyshop of Canterbury.
1601 tr. Pope Eleutherius Let. in T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. (1655) i. 11 Take ye a Law, and by that Law (through Gods sufferance) rule your Kingdome of Britain.
1879 R. K. Douglas Confucianism iii. 77 Kings rule by its [sc. Heaven's] sufferance, and are deposed by its decree.
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.
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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.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > permission by non-intervention or toleration > instance of
sufferance1547
1547–55 N. Ridley Wks. 269 My lord, such things as St. Paul enjoined to the Gentiles for a sufferance..were only commandments of time.
1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. l. sig. Nn6 Let them take my papers, and doe with them what they will. Sufferances of some kinde are holesomer then reuenge.
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 25 Our Saviour himself allows divorce to be a command... Neither doe they weak'n this assertion, who say it was only a sufferance.
f. Customs. In full, bill of sufferance: a licence to ship or discharge cargoes at specified ports.
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society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > [noun] > customs documents
cocket1425
transire1599
bill of sight1662
bill of store1670
sufferance1670
passport1714
pricking-note1846
transit pass1862
certificate of origin1886
dandy-note-
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo > book or list of cargo > licence to load or unload
sufferance1670
stamp note1858
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Bill of Sufferance, is a Licence granted at the Custom-house to a Merchant, to suffer him to trade from one English Port to another, without paying Custom.
1676 in Rep. Comm. H. Comm. (1803) XIV. 541 A sufferance granted to Mr. Jackson, to land salmon at St. Saviour's Dock.
1750 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria (1752) 393 Coast Sufferances, are to be given without Fees.
1789 in Rep. Comm. H. Comm. (1803) XIV. 540 Resolved that no sufferance be granted for landing foreign goods on any public wharf beyond the wharf commonly called Brown's.
1832 Gen. Order in R. Ellis Laws & Pract. Regulations Customs (1841) II. 52 Application must be made..for a baggage-sufferance..to authorize the landing..of such part..as may be unaccompanied by the proprietor.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 693 Transire, a custom-house document specifying the goods shipped by a coasting vessel, docketted with a sufferance for their discharge on arriving at the place of destination.
7.
a. Law. The condition of the holder of an estate who, having come in by lawful right, continues to hold it after the title has ceased without the express leave of the owner. tenant, estate at sufferance ( †in sufferance).Cf. Anglo-Norman par lounge suffraunce sauntz autre title (Britton ii. xxiv).
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > continuance after title ceased
sufferance1579
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 106 The time was once,..When shepeheards had none inheritaunce, Ne of land, nor fee in sufferaunce.
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §42 d A particuler estate in certaine, is an estate at will, or at sufferance.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. §460 A Release to a Tenant at sufferance is voyd because he hath a possession without privity.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii. 150 An estate at sufferance, is where one comes into possession of land by lawful title, but keeps it afterwards without any title at all.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 288 There is no privity of estate between a tenant at sufferance, and the owner of the land; for this tenant only holds by the laches of the owner.
1829 W. Scott Rob Roy (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xxx The family..occupied a good deal of property there, whether by sufferance, by the right of the sword,..or by legal titles of various kinds [etc.].
1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 638/2 Sufferance, Tenancy at or by.
b. transferred.
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1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catech. (1853) 157 Foreign kings that held the kingdom of sufferance under the Roman empire.
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 266 This is no highway, but a way of Sufferance, by favour.
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 257 The French..upon Sufferance or Incroachment..pretend to that which we call Nova Scotia.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 157 This is not the King's Highway, 't is a Way upon Sufferance.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 363 Whose freedom is by suff'rance, and at will Of a superior, he is never free.
1801 H. Lee Canterbury Tales IV. 16 The very house lately lent on sufferance to the Kruitzners.
1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. xxv. 365 If they were called upon to resign what they had occupied by abuse and held by sufferance.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun]
longingeOE
bideOE
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off-putting1496
postponing1496
tract1503
dilating1509
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hafting1519
sufferance1523
tracking1524
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procrastination1548
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tardation1568
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retardance1586
temporizing1587
by and by1591
suspensea1592
procrastinatinga1594
tardance1595
linger1597
forslacking1600
morrowing1602
recess1603
deferment1612
attendance1614
put-off1623
adjournal1627
fristing1637
hanging-up1638
retardment1640
dilatoriness1642
suspension1645
stickagea1647
tardidation1647
transtemporation1651
demurragea1656
prolatation1656
prolation1656
moration1658
perendination1658
offput1730
retardure1751
postponement1757
retard1781
traverse1799
tarrowing1832
mañana1845
temporization1888
procrastinativeness1893
deferral1895
traa dy liooar1897
stalling1927
heel-tapping1949
off-put1970
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxiii. 32 There was no delacyon of sufferaunce, nor mercy, but incontynent he was drawen..and quartered.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxv. 36 To treat for a peace, and sufferaunce of warr.
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 404 This special kind of Truce was called Sufferance of War.
1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) Sufferance, in ancient customs, a delay, or respite of time, which the lord granted his vassal, for the performance of fealty and homage.
Compounds
sufferance goods n. goods shipped or landed under a sufferance.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > imports or exports > types of
sufferance goods1774
run1789
indent1801
export reject1952
parallel imports1966
liftings1973
1774 Hull Dock Act 6 To ship off..all goods called Sufferance Goods.
sufferance quay n.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > types of
wood-wharf1279
jutty-head1559
coal wharf1655
coal staithe1708
jetty head1731
sufferance wharf1774
trunk-staithe1789
wharf-boat1849
sufferance quay1882
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 831/1 The frontage of the legal quays in 1795 was only 1419 feet, and of the sufferance quays about 3500 feet.
sufferance wharf n. a quay or wharf at which cargo could be shipped or landed under a sufferance (see 6f).
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > types of
wood-wharf1279
jutty-head1559
coal wharf1655
coal staithe1708
jetty head1731
sufferance wharf1774
trunk-staithe1789
wharf-boat1849
sufferance quay1882
1774 Hull Dock Act 33 The first sufferance quay or wharf shall be erected.
1784 in Rep. Comm. H. Comm. (1803) XIV. 541 The petition of Mr. David Griffin, wharfinger, praying that a wharf purchased by him..may be used as a sufferance wharf.
1796 W. Vaughan Exam. 7 Coasters generally load and discharge at Sufferance-Wharfs; some few of them at the Legal Quays.
1838 in R. Ellis Laws & Pract. Regulations Customs (1840) IV. 271 Landing-surveyor at legal quays to attend at sufferance wharfs for approval of values on application being made.
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