sufferance : Idioms & Phrases
Estate of sufferance
(Law) , the holding by a tenant who came in by a lawful title, but remains, after his right has expired, without positive leave of the owner. Blackstone.
Webster 1913
long-sufferance
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noun patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
long-suffering.
WordNet
Long"-suf`fer*ance noun
Definitions
Forbearance to punish or resent.
Webster 1913
On sufferance
- by mere toleration;
as, to remain in a house .on sufferance
