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Definition of Long-sufferance
1. Noun. Patient endurance of pain or unhappiness.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Long-sufferance
Literary usage of Long-sufferance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Illinois, from 1778 to 1833; and Life and Times of Ninian Edwards by Ninian Wirt Edwards, William Wirt (1870)
"From our knowledge of the danger we are in and our long sufferance, we think we
ask nothing but what is reasonable, and what will be ..."
2. Remarks on Forest Scenery, and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"... of these insects nestling under the tail and belly of such horses as are
patient of them, as the New Forest horse commonly is by long sufferance. ..."
3. A History of the Great War, 1914- by Briggs Davenport (1916)
"CHAPTER IX THE RUSSIANS ENTER UPON AN ETHNIC CRUSADE, AFTER LONG SUFFERANCE OF
THEIR BROTHERS' WRONGS Instinctive Impulse of ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay by Jeremy Taylor (1851)
"And I must make this observation to you; that when things come to this pass, that
God is forced to the last remedies of judgments, this long- sufferance ..."
5. The Sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in One Volume by Jeremy Taylor (1859)
"And I must make this observation to you ; that when things come to this pass,
that God is forced to the last remedies of judgments, this long-sufferance ..."
6. The Sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in One Volume by Jeremy Taylor (1874)
"But concerning the whole nations of communities of men, this long-sufferance is
a sermon of repentance; loud, clamorous, and highly argu- ..."
7. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"And I must make this observation to you; that when things come to this pass that
God is forced to the last remedies of judgments, this long-sufferance will ..."
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