sufferance

1. (archaic) Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.Examples: "At length when as he ſaw her haſtie heat / Abate, and panting breath begin to fayle, / He through long ſufferãce growing now more great, / Roſe in his strength, and gan her freſh aſſayle, [...]"; "I indulged in this meditation for a moment, and then again addressed the mourner, who stood leaning against the bed with that expression of resigned despair, of complete misery, and a patient sufferance of it, which is far more touching than any of the insane ravings or wild gesticulation of untamed sorrow."; "In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for the select circle—a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass. [...] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance; they were received with distance and suspicion."archaiccountableuncountable

2. (archaic) Suffering; pain, misery.Examples: "The sufferances which simply touch us in minde, doe much lesse afflict me, then most men [...]."; "Fortune, do diuorce / It from the bearer, 'tis a ſufferance, panging / As ſoule and bodies ſeuering."; "[T]he streak / Of sufferance yet upon his forehead lay, / Where the blue veins look'd shadowy, shrunk, and weak; [...]"archaiccountableuncountable

3. (obsolete) Loss; damage; injury.Examples: "The deſperate Tempeſt has ſo bang'd the Turke, / That their deſignement halts; Another ſhippe of Venice hath ſeene / A greeuous wracke and ſufferance / On moſt part of the Fleete."countableobsoleteuncountable

4. (British, historical) A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.Britishcountablehistoricaluncountable