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Adjective: long-suffering  'lóng'sú-fu-ring
  1. Patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble
    "a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife"
    - enduring
Noun: long-suffering  'lóng'sú-fu-ring
  1. Patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
    - long-sufferance

Derived forms: long-sufferings

See also: patient

Type of: endurance

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