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Long-suffering

Long-suffering Meaning & Definition
Long-suffering Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Long-suffering?

[n] patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
[adj] patiently enduring continual wrongs or trouble; "an enduring disposition"; "a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Long-suffering: enduring | long-sufferance | patient

Related Terms | Find terms related to Long-suffering: acceptance | accepting | armed with patience | benevolence | benevolent | charitable | charitableness | charity | conciliatory | condonation | disciplined | disregard | easiness | endurance | endurant | enduring | forbearance | forbearant | forbearing | forbearingness | forgiveness | forgiving | forgivingness | fortitude | generous | generousness | humility | indulgence | indulgent | kind | kindness | lenience | leniency | lenient | lenity | longanimity | longanimous | long-sufferance | lowliness | magnanimity | magnanimous | meekness | overlooking | patience | patience of Job | patient | patient as Job | patientness | permissiveness | perseverance | persevering | philosophical | placable | resignation | self-control | self-controlled | sparing | Spartan | stoic | stoicism | subduedness | sufferance | sweet reasonableness | tolerance | tolerant | tolerating | toleration | tolerative | uncomplainingness | understanding | unresentful | unrevengeful | unrevengefulness | waiting game | waiting it out

See Also | endurance

Long-suffering In Webster's Dictionary

\Long"-suf`fer*ing\, n. Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. --Ex. xxxiv. 6.
\Long"-suf`fer*ing\, n. Long patience of offense. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering? --Rom. ii. 4.

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