Middle English Dictionary Entry
comporten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | comporten v. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To bear or endure (grief, pain).
Associated quotations
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.1397 : Though to me your absence is an helle, With pacience I wol my wo comporte.
- ?1457 Hardyng Chron.A (Lnsd 204)p.741 : All helples forth he muste comporte his payne.