sufferation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole sofarieshan.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sufferation (plural sufferations)
- (Rastafari, Jamaica, nonstandard) Suffering, especially due to poverty or repression.
- In this time of economic hardship, there is only sufferation upon the land.
- 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 332:
- Lockdown remind you that what make you brothers is not blood but sufferation.
References[edit]
- OED 2006
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