souffrance, souffrant(e)

la souffrance, souffrant(e) (FR N-F/ADJ) endurance, patience, tolerance, awaiting resolution; suffering, feeling physical or emotional pain. Alphonse de Lamartine (1790 – 1869) writes: »The same sufferings unite [people] a thousand times more than the same joys.« First appears in French in 1260, (12th c.) soffrance, from Latin sufferentia (resignation, tolerance). (Bourget, Gravollet, van Lerberghe, Verlaine)