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Definition of Long-suffering

1. Noun. Patient endurance of pain or unhappiness.

2. Adjective. Patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble. "A long-suffering and uncomplaining wife"

Definition of Long-suffering

1. Adjective. Having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Long-suffering

long-rangers long-run long-running long-shanked long-sighted long-sightedness long-since long-snouted long-span long-spined bullhead

long-spined bullheads long-spurred violet long-standing long-staple long-sufferance long-suffering (current term) long-tail boat long-tail boats long-tailed long-tailed pangolin

long-tailed porcupine long-tailed tit long-tailed weasel long-term long-term care long-term memory long-term nonprogressor long-term potentiation long-term productivity

Literary usage of Long-suffering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley (1855)
"What shall we render unto the I.ord, for all his patience and long suffering, even to this day ? How often have we incurred the sentence of condemnation by ..."

2. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the by Washington Irving, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1898)
"... Captain's Effort as a Pacificator—A Nez Percy's Argument in Favor of War—Robberies by the Blackfeet—Long-Suffering of the Nez Perec's—a Hunter's Elysium ..."

3. Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a by Charles Swan (1824)
"OF CHRIST, WHO IS long-suffering AND MERCIFUL. WHEN Diocletian reigned, he decreed, that whosoever committed adultery should be put to death. ..."

4. Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a by Charles Swan (1824)
"OP CHRIST, WHO IS long-suffering AND MERCIFUL. WHEN Diocletian reigned, he decreed, that whosoever committed adultery should be put to death. ..."

5. Jewish Theology: Systematically and Historically Considered by Kaufmann ( Kohler (1918)
"... GOD'S long-suffering AND MERCY 1. In one of the little known apocryphal writings, the Testament of Abraham, a beautiful story is told of the patriarch. ..."

6. Works by Washington Irving (1895)
"... Captain's Effort as a Pacificator—A Nez Percy's Argument in Favor of War—Robberies by the Blackfeet—Long-Suffering of the Nez ..."

7. Patriarchy: Or, The Family: Its Constitution and Probation by John Harris (1855)
"long-suffering, indeed, is historically and in fact only a mode of mercy. ... The long-suffering is as truly contingent on the will of God as the mercy. ..."

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