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 →

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 →
• They complain most who suffer least. (Aesop's Fables; a new translation) tree →
• and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly. (Torah GEN.31.28, JPS 1917) tree →

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.
• And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
• and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.
• Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
• So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «suffer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.