Definition of "long-suffering" []

• Patiently enduring wrongs or difficulties. (adjective)
• Patient endurance. See Synonyms at patience. (noun)

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• "Roger McCormick adopted an expression of long-suffering patience."
• "Every night I’d call my long-suffering best buddy and read her whatever I’d produced that day."
• "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."