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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of suffer

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suffer + -est

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Examples

  • What thou sufferest is mere discomfort, Master Galenthe aches of a nobleman2s son who finds the fireplace ready when the frost first touches the ground.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • When thou sufferest all this transport and sickness and trouble being enamoured of one who returneth thy passion, how would it be with thee if she whom thou lovest were contrary and contumelious, and thy case were discovered through her perfidy?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Endure then with patience that which thou sufferest, for verily thou deservest all that betideth thee! —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “What, then, are thy thoughts of the Emperor by whose command thou sufferest so severe a restraint?”

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • ‘Take heart and be of good courage, I know what thou sufferest.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

    pyxopotamus Diary Entry pyxopotamus 2006

  • Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Thou sufferest this justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

    The Meditations 2004

  • Iesus Christ, holy and euerlasting Spirit, and now in these our dayes teachest vs to keepe Christianitie, and sufferest vs to enioy our kingdome to the happy commodity of our land, and wealth of our people, in despight of our enemies, and to our fame with our friends.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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