Obs. rare. [f. SUFFER v. + -AGE.] Permission, approval.
1622. F. Markham, Bk. War, V. ix. 195. In this mans power (under the sufferage of the Generall) is the election of many Captaines.
1650. B., Discolliminium, 28. I will grant him as he saith, if he will hold to his spelling, that all is now united in the Sufferage of the People, though not in their Suffrage.
