sufferance, naïve

Living Through the End of Nature The Future of American Environmentalism Paul Wapner How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a post-nature age: a proposal for navigating between naïve naturalism and technological arrogance.

Peter Drucker once wrote that businesses exist only by the “sufferance” of society at large. If they fail to live up to the standards demanded by society, ...

• suf・fer・ance
• ━━ n. 寛容, 黙許; 忍耐力. on sufferance　大目に見られて.⇒suffer

n.

1. Patient endurance, especially of pain or distress.
2. Suffering; misery.
3. Sanction or permission implied or given by failure to prohibit; tacit consent; tolerance.

[Middle English suffrance, from Old French sufrance, from Latin sufferentia, from sufferēns, sufferent-, present participle of sufferre, to suffer. See suffer.]