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/sˈəfərər/ Listen

noun

Sufferer n.

One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.

One who permits or allows.

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Etymology of 'Sufferer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... do not feel inclined to accept all the shocks which fate sends me in a spirit of joyful resignation. Perhaps you will be good enough to elucidate this new mystery. Is everybody mad—or am I the sole sufferer?" ...

— The Man Who Knew • Edgar Wallace

... Mrs. Wriothesley's request, and Beauchamp at once slipped through the rails and ran down to the group. He found Jim resting his head upon his hand, lying on the grass and looking ghastly pale, but his brother-sufferer was still insensible. ...

— Belles and Ringers • Hawley Smart

... sufferer applied to his wounded members healed the bruises in a few days, and he was again in condition to pursue his wonted sports and pleasures. After the lapse of a week, as the patient exhibited no further signs of the malady, the watch was ...

— In School and Out - or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. • Oliver Optic

... had reached his office, and the sight of the familiar old rooms that had been the scene of so many revelations of real tragedies and genuine hardships, known only to the sufferer and to him professionally, forced him ...

— The Calling Of Dan Matthews • Harold Bell Wright

... stead (for she had departed in the interval) a delicate-looking young woman, plain and poor, a widow evidently from the style of her shabby mourning and sad expression of face, bearing in her arms a weird and sickly-looking child, evidently a sufferer from spinal disease—an infant as to size, ...

— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

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