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Long-suffering   /lɔŋ-sˈəfərɪŋ/   Listen
Long-suffering

noun
1.
Patient endurance of pain or unhappiness.  Synonym: long-sufferance.
adjective
1.
Patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble.  Synonym: enduring.  "A long-suffering and uncomplaining wife"






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"Long-suffering" Quotes from Famous Books



... between them arose generally from the petulant quickness of the Prince; for in his son his own irascible character was joined with the melancholy gravity which Giovanni inherited from his mother, and in virtue of which, being taciturn, he was sometimes thought long-suffering. ...
— Saracinesca • F. Marion Crawford

... Visions of the dim future floated before her, prophetic of all the trials and sorrows which awaited her in those unknown regions to which they were journeying. She had obeyed the call of duty, but had not yet tasted the reward. The sacrifice had not been as yet purified and sublimed, by long-suffering and self-denial, so as to render it an acceptable offering on so holy a shrine. She looked up to heaven, and tried to breathe a prayer; but all was still and dark ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie

... has it been said, The life and the cross of Christ shed a splendor from heaven upon a new and till then unheard of order of heroism—that which may be called the feminine order—meekness, endurance, long-suffering, the passive strength of martyrdom. For Christianity does not say, "Honor to the wise," but, "Blessed are the meek." Not "Glory to the strong," but "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Not the Lord is a man of war; Jehovah is his name, but God is love. In Christ, not intellect, ...
— The True Woman • Justin D. Fulton

... your interest in Jack and germs is almost as great as mine. Jack has been in Peking. He thinks the revolution of the Chinese against the Manchu Government is going to be something far more serious this time than a flutter of fans and a sputter of shooting-crackers. The long-suffering worm with the head of a dragon is going to turn, and when it does, there will not be a Manchu left to tell the ...
— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little

... is unfit to rule his fellow-men!" he exclaimed. "Already he and his father have brought the most fearful miseries upon our country. What further trials is he not preparing for us? I would urge peace, forbearance, and long-suffering; and yet I cannot believe that we are called upon to submit without resistance to the horrible tyrannies to which we have been ...
— The Golden Grasshopper - A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham • W.H.G. Kingston


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