Meaning & use
Longsuffering
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Showing patient endurance of hardship, difficulty, or provocation over a long period.
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Her longsuffering husband never complained about the constant travel her job required.
The team's longsuffering fans finally saw their patience rewarded with a championship.
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More commonly written with a hyphen as 'long-suffering'; the word appears frequently in religious texts to describe patient endurance of wrongs.
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