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sufferer

noun C1
  1. One who suffers; one who is afflicted.

Plural sufferers

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“’Tis true, madame,” answered he, “that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king’s death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 45 · C1
You must feel it; and the usual satisfaction of preaching patience to a sufferer is denied me, because you have always so much.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 310 · B2
Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 2 · B2
Dantès was at length roused from his reverie by the voice of Faria, who, having also been visited by his jailer, had come to invite his fellow-sufferer to share his supper.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 169 · C1

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