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Sufferable adj.

Able to suffer or endure; patient. (Obs.) "Ye must be sufferable."

That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable.

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Etymology of 'Sufferable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sufferable" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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 he never was what may be called a well-mounted scholar ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... muffled up in his robe, emerged from his palace into the busy streets. It is at night that the vitality of Oriental life is most impressive. The narrow winding streets, crowded with a population breathing the now sufferable air, the illuminated coffee-houses, the groups of gay yet sober revellers, the music, and the dancing, and the animated recitals of the poet and the story-teller, all combine to invest the starry hours with a beguiling and even fascinating ...

— Alroy - The Prince Of The Captivity • Benjamin Disraeli

Words linked to "Sufferable" : tolerable, bearable, endurable, supportable