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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