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adjective
1.
enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
noun
2.
long and patient endurance of injury, trouble, or provocation: years of long-suffering and illness.
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Long-suffering
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Origin:
1520–30
1520–30
Related forms
long-suf·fer·ing·ly, adverb
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| long-suffering | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | enduring pain, unhappiness, etc, without complaint |
| —n | |
| 2. | long and patient endurance |
| long-'sufferingly | |
| —adv | |
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