Translation for '
sufferance' from English to French
| NOUN | sufferance | sufferances | |
| SYNO | acceptance | sufferance | toleration |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- With theological and juristic principles therein he tried to define the golden mean between Pharisaic damnation and craven sufferance of heresy, the form of reversal to "true faith", the punishment of obstinacy and the socio-religious causes of heresy.
- There are seven Elven (Loari) families that constitute the ruling class, with all other inhabitants living there on sufferance as heavily regulated "plebeians."
- Islamic tradition regards Jews as a legitimate community of believers in God (called "people of the Book") legally entitled to sufferance.
- Singapore also maintained that using international conventions and legal practice, any exercise of sovereign rights by Malaysia on Singapore's territory, such as the stamping of passports, can only be done with the sufferance of the Government of Singapore.
- Both believe in the conquest of the mind through control of the passions through the five senses as the path to ending the cycle of sufferance of birth and death.
- Golwalkar believed that people following Semitic faiths (Muslims and Christians) must be prevented from being Indians. They could live only at the sufferance of the majority Hindu community.
- This made it clear to both Fidelity and independents that they worked only at the sufferance of Equity.
- A tenancy at sufferance may exist when a tenant remains in possession of property even after the end of the lease, until the landlord acts to eject the tenant.
- The foundation is opposed to all activity that engenders sufferance to animals.
- A "tenancy at sufferance" (sometimes called a "holdover tenancy") exists when a tenant remains in possession of a property after the expiration of a lease, and until the landlord acts to eject the tenant from the property.
- "he secured and maintained his seat as M.P. for Dudley entirely on the sufferance of the Castle power and influence".
- Jones, Santa Cruz describes this moment in her childhood where she first experiences "sufferance."
- "Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
- Stanton’s link between the Patriarchal government and the British rule over the American colonies is also at the forefront of the declaration, changing the words in Jefferson’s document from “Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government” to “Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled”.
- In line 9, the quarto's comma after tame is generally removed; editors have glossed the phrase "tame to sufferance" as "made tame to fortune's blows" (Malone); "bearing tamely even cruel distress" (Dowden); "complaisant in suffering" (Sidney Lee); and "subdued so as to suffer" (Beeching).
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