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adjective
Sufferable  adj.  
1.
Able to suffer or endure; patient. (Obs.) "Ye must be sufferable."
2.
That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable.






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"Sufferable" Quotes from Famous Books



... form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage



Words linked to "Sufferable" :   endurable, supportable



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