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# suffer

«suffer» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **allow** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

allow

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To let something happen or to permit it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/suffer/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "suffer" means to feel pain or hardship. The first and third sentences use the old sense of allowing; the second uses today's sense.

### examples

- Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live. (Torah EXO.22.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/suffer/#x1)
- They complain most who suffer least. (Aesop's Fables; a new translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/suffer/#x2)
- and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly. (Torah GEN.31.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/suffer/#x3)

### primary record

suffer

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 166 (Torah 6, tales 160, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 10; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 0.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.528/)
- [And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.940/)
- [and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.965/)
- [Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.633/)
- [So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.703/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «suffer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/suffer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.