Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Patiently enduring wrongs or difficulties.
- noun Patient endurance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Long endurance of injury or provocation; patience under offense.
- Bearing injuries or provocation with patience; not easily moved to retaliation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient endurance of pain or unhappiness; patient; not easily provoked.
- noun disposed to bear inconvenience or injury patiently; long patience of offense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble
- noun patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
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Examples
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Roger McCormick adopted an expression of long-suffering patience.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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Roger McCormick adopted an expression of long-suffering patience.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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Roger McCormick adopted an expression of long-suffering patience.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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Every night I’d call my long-suffering best buddy and read her whatever I’d produced that day.
Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin 1990
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A wife petitioning for divorce had to show how attentive, obedient, and long-suffering she had been and, of course, sexually faithful while she was being victimized.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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I love how Jacob looks so patient and long-suffering through it all.
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Carolyn Bourne has been compared to Hyacinth Bucket above, with long-suffering husband Richard after an email she sent to her future daughter-in-law went viral.
Mother-in-law's withering email to bride-to-be goes viral 2011
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Carolyn Bourne has been compared to Hyacinth Bucket above, with long-suffering husband Richard after an email she sent to her future daughter-in-law went viral.
Mother-in-law's withering email to bride-to-be goes viral 2011
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The long-suffering bleakness was very pronounced on Nancy's face, and when the walls of water, in impending downfall, reared above the
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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Grail, Christ's own Grail, the warm human, long-suffering and maltreated, but to be rescued and saved at the last.
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