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Sanction vs Sufferance - What's the difference?

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Sanction is a related term of sufferance.


As nouns the difference between sanction and sufferance

is that sanction is an approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid while sufferance is (lb) endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.

As a verb sanction

is to ratify; to make valid.

sanction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
  • A penalty, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
  • A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying the above.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To ratify; to make valid.
  • To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
    • Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest.
  • To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.

    • Anagrams

    * English contranyms English refractory feminine rhymes ----

    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).