sufferance

noun

/ˈsʌf.ər.əns/

/-ɚ-/

Definition

on sufferance formal › with unwilling permission: He gave me a bed for a couple of nights but I felt I was there on sufferance.Allowing and permittingUnwilling and reluctantReady and willingLacking interest and enthusiasm under sufferance old-fashioned › If someone does something under sufferance, they do it very unwillingly: He only visits his parents under sufferance.Unwilling and reluctantReady and willingLacking interest and enthusiasm

(Definition of sufferance noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)