sufferance

noun5

1. •
   Acquiescence or tacit compliance with some circumstance, behavior, or instruction.

   • [M]ost wretched man, / That to affections does the bridle lend; / In their beginning they are weake and wan, / But soone through suff'rance growe to fearefull end; [...] — 1590
2. •
   (UK, historical) A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.
3. •
   (no longer used) Endurance, especially patiently, of pain or adversity.

   • At length when as he saw her hastie heat / Abate, and panting breath begin to fayle, / He through long sufferãce growing now more great, / Rose in his strength, and gan her fresh assayle, [...] — 1596
4. •
   (no longer used) Suffering; pain, misery.

   • The sufferances which simply touch us in minde, doe much lesse afflict me, then most men [...]. — 1603
5. •
   (no longer used) Loss; damage; injury.

   • The desperate Tempest has so bang'd the Turke, / That their designement halts; Another shippe of Venice hath seene / A greeuous wracke and sufferance / On most part of the Fleete. — 1603