Meaning of LONG-SUFFERING
| Pronunciation: | | 'long'sufuring
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- [n] patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
- [adj] patiently enduring continual wrongs or trouble; "an enduring disposition"; "a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife"
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| | Synonyms: | | enduring, long-sufferance, patient |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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