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- noun
suffering , especially due topoverty orrepression
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Examples
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"Nuthin 'has changed, 'cause wi still seeing the same' sufferation 'and oppression," he said.
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Dung dere in the ghetto I go, where sufferation I once know, ey Mummy an daddy, all a 'we so poor, we all had to sleep on the floor Storm it come and it blow dung me door, me ha fi nail up me window Me shoes tear up, me toe just a show, me nuh know a where fi really wan' go Mummy jus '
WN.com - Articles related to Australia mining firm strikes gold in RP 2010
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"Ghetto-Ology," about starvation and mass brutality, in which he sang, "I got an A in starvation, I pass my grades in sufferation."
NYT > Home Page 2010
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"Ghetto-Ology," about starvation and mass brutality, in which he sang, "I got an A in starvation, I pass my grades in sufferation."
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Dung dere in the ghetto I go, where sufferation I once know, ey Mummy an daddy, all a 'we so poor, we all had to sleep on the floor Storm it come and it blow dung me door, me ha fi nail up me window Me shoes tear up, me toe just a show, me nuh know a where fi really wan' go Mummy jus '
WN.com - Articles related to Australia mining firm strikes gold in RP 2010
mollusque commented on the word sufferation
The Rastas were a breed apart, staunchly uncompromising in their rejection of the material world, decrying the "sufferation" of shantytown and condemning the police who protected "Babylon".
--Timothy White, 2006, Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, p. 133
July 11, 2008