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Consent vs Sufferance - What's the difference?

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Consent is a related term of sufferance.


As nouns the difference between consent and sufferance

is that consent is voluntary agreement or permission while sufferance is (lb) endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.

As a verb consent

is to express willingness, to give permission.

consent

English

(wikipedia consent)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To express willingness, to give permission.
    • ''I've consented to have the procedure performed.
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare
    • My poverty, but not my will, consents .
  • (medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
  • *
  • (obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
  • * (rfdate) Milton
    • Interpreters will not consent it to be a true story.
  • To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
  • * (rfdate) Bible, Acts viii. 1
    • And Saul was consenting unto his death.
  • * (rfdate) Fuller
    • Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment.

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    Synonyms

    * (intransitive) acquiesce, agree, approve, assent, concur,

    Antonyms

    * (intransitive) disagree, , oppose

    Derived terms

    * consenting

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Voluntary agreement or permission.
  • *, II.6:
    • All men know by experience, there be some parts of our bodies which often without any consent of ours doe stirre, stand, and lye down againe.

    Synonyms

    * (voluntary agreement) agreement, approval, assent, permission, willingness,

    Antonyms

    * (voluntary agreement) dissent, disagreement, opposition, refusal

    Derived terms

    * consenter * consentaneous * age of consent

    sufferance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sufferaunce

    Noun

  • (lb) Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:but hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise
  • *1826 , (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley), The Last Man , Ch.4,
  • *: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.
  • Acquiescence or tacit compliance with some circumstance, behavior, or instruction.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:In their beginning they are weak and wan, / But soon, through sufferance , grow to fearful end.
  • *(Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
  • *:Somewhiles by sufferance , and somewhiles by special leave and favour, they erected to themselves oratories.
  • *1910 , (Arthur Quiller-Couch), Lady Good-for-Nothing , Ch.20,
  • *:When his talk trespasses beyond sufferance , I chastise him.
  • (lb) Suffering; pain, misery.
  • *, II.37:
  • *:The sufferances which simply touch us in minde, doe much lesse afflict me, then most men.
  • *1612 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VIII , act 2, sc.3,
  • *:'Tis a sufferance panging / As soul and body's severing.
  • *1819 , (Lord Byron), , II.147:
  • *:the streak / Of sufferance yet upon his forehead lay, / Where the blue veins looked shadowy, shrunk, and weak.
  • (lb) Loss; damage; injury.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:a grievoussufferance on most part of their fleet
  • A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.

    • Related terms

    * on sufferance

    References

    * * * * “ * “ sufferance” in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * * “ sufferance” in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * “ sufferance” at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006).