the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Suffer
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
(2):
(v. t.) To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage.
(3):
(v. t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
(4):
(v. i.) To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety.
(5):
(v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
(6):
(v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
(7):
(v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Suffer'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/suffer.html. 1828.
