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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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sufferable" Quotes from Famous Books



... reference to the state and standard of Greek literature at that time and in this country. Porson had not yet raised our ideal. The earliest laurels of Coleridge were gathered, however, in that field. Yet no man will, at this day, pretend that the Greek of his prize ode is sufferable. Neither did Coleridge ever become an accurate Grecian in later times, when better models of scholarship, and better aids to scholarship, had begun to multiply. But still we must assert this point of superiority for Coleridge, that, whilst ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey



Words linked to "Sufferable" :   supportable, tolerable



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