suffereth

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A form of suffer — To undergo hardship.

OriginEnglish suffer ← Middle English suffren ← Old French suffrir →
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Meanings

verb
  1. archaicindicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of suffer

    Ne suffereth it vncomely idlenesse

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinsuffero
  2. Latinsufferre
  3. Vulgar Latin*sufferīre
  4. Old Frenchsuffrir
  5. Middle Englishsuffren
  6. Englishsuffer
  7. Englishsuffereth

From suffer + -eth.

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