long-suffering love

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

  • Roger McCormick adopted an expression of long-suffering patience.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • Roger McCormick adopted an expression of long-suffering patience.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • Roger McCormick adopted an expression of long-suffering patience.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • I love how Jacob looks so patient and long-suffering through it all.

    » Sibling Love Strocel.com 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Grail, Christ's own Grail, the warm human, long-suffering and maltreated, but to be rescued and saved at the last.

    What Life Means to Me 2010

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