on sufferance
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Unwillingly agreed to or barely tolerated.
Example Sentences
- "I wasn't whole-hearted about the decision but couldn't think of a better one, so went along with it on sufferance for the time being."
- "In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own 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."