sufferance

 
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌf(ə)r(ə)ns/

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1absence of objection rather than genuine approval; toleration: Charles was only here on sufferance
  • Law the condition of the holder of an estate who continues to hold it after the title has ceased, without the express permission of the owner: an estate at sufferance
  • archaic patient endurance.
  • 2 archaic the suffering or undergoing of something bad or unpleasant.

Origin:

Middle English (in sufferance (sense 2)): from Anglo-Norman French suffraunce, from late Latin sufferentia, from sufferre (see suffer)

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Remember that sufferance has an e in the middle; the ending is -ance.