Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sufferable manner; tolerably.
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- adverb In a
sufferable manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Players are the worst readers of all: — reads vilely; and Mrs. —, who is so celebrated, can read nothing well but dramatic compositions: Milton she cannot read sufferably.
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But they burned in so great charity that they cast and threw away their arms and harness, and kneeling on their knees received sufferably with a joyous heart the swords of them that martyred them, among whom Maurice, embraced in the love and faith of Jesu Christ, received the crown of martyrdom.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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_ 'In Joe Miller this story would read, perhaps, sufferably.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822
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_ 'In Joe Miller this story would read, perhaps, sufferably.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Players are the worst readers of all: -- reads vilely; and Mrs. ---, who is so celebrated, can read nothing well but dramatic compositions: Milton she cannot read sufferably.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822
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