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long-suffering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Long-suffering \Long"-suf`fer*ing\, n. disposed to bear inconvenience or injury patiently; long patience of offense; as, a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife.
Syn: enduring, forbearing, longanimous, meek.
Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and
forbearance and long-suffering?
--Rom. ii. 4.
Long-suffering \Long"-suf`fer*ing\, n. Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient endurance of pain or unhappiness; patient; not easily provoked.
Syn: long-sufferance.
The Lord God, merciful and gracious,
long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and
truth.
--Ex. xxxiv.
6.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint.
WordNet
adj. patiently enduring continual wrongs or trouble; "an enduring disposition"; "a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife" [syn: enduring]
n. patient endurance of pain or unhappiness [syn: long-sufferance]
Usage examples of "long-suffering".
Life had not dealt fairly with him to make him the eighth and little-prized son of an ambitionless man, a thane of moderate rank who could do nothing but breed on his long-suffering wife like a jack rabbit.
Therefore, it behoves that leaf to take fast hold on the handle of resignation and radiant acquiescence and to strictly adhere to the cord of patience and long-suffering.
The navies of Helium and the First Born had cleared the fortresses and the temples of the therns when they had refused to surrender and accept the new order of things that had swept their false religion from long-suffering Mars.
Croix, and listened drearily, as if he was speaking an unknown tongue, to Father Francis, preaching patience and long-suffering to the end.
The execution of Lotter and his lieutenants was a sign that the patience of a long-suffering Empire had at last reached an end.
They turned to see Smeth, struggling with baggage that kept floating away from him in the zero gravity and haranguing a long-suffering Nar steward.
The long-suffering barista was already lifting cups and spoons onto a tray.
Whether it is the devoted bravery of Miss Pross, the long-suffering and patient fortitude of Mrs.
At least daily, Proxenus would startle Aedon out of his frequent reveries in the courtyard by whacking him on the head with his makeshift wooden sword, sending him into a chase that would end with the boys racing through the house, wrestling on the hard tile floors and getting underfoot of the long-suffering elderly servants who attempted to maintain order.
Her face like bitter stone, Pauline slapped open the sandalwood sticks and began to fan her sister, while Louise Marie, a long-suffering smile of martyred gratitude and a gleam of satisfaction in her eye, jerked and hobbled through a Mozart contredanse in a fashion that amply demonstrated that she had done none of her appointed practice during the previous four days.
For myself, I can say that since I became a knight errant I have been valiant, well-mannered, liberal, polite, generous, courteous, bold, gentle, patient, long-suffering in labors, imprisonments, and enchantments, and although only a short while ago I saw myself locked in a cage like a madman, I think that with the valor of my arm, and heaven favoring me, and fortune not opposing me, in a few days I shall find myself the king of some kingdom where I can display the gratitude and liberality of my heart.
Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.
Dour and long-suffering the Boers made no reply, save with sporadic rifle-fire, and refused until the crisis should come to expose their great guns to the chance of injury.
Dokken raised his eyebrows with a long-suffering expression and turned from Tharion as if begging his indulgence.
Marion McPherson, Darktown Bill's long-suffering hausfrau, thinks Billy Boy spends Thursday nites watching Mexican bantamweights pound each other silly at the Olympic Auditorium.