单词 | long-sufferance |
释义 | long-sufferancen. In early use chiefly in religious contexts. Now rare. = long-suffering n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > long-suffering sufferancea1300 sufferinga1340 longanimityc1400 long-sufferancec1405 long-suffering1496 patiencec1500 endurance1600 enduring1603 endurementa1716 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §730 Fortitudo may endure by long suffraunce the trauailles that been couenable. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 4422 Good is be-ware of goddes long suffrance; Thogh he to venge hym tarie, & be suffrable, Whan his strook cometh, it is importable. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. ii. 4 Despisest thou the riches off his..longe sufferance [1611 long suffering]? 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Firste Daie of Lente f. xxxii*v Obstinate synners..which despised the goodnesse, pacience & long sufferaunce of god. 1621 H. Ainsworth Annot. First Bk. Moses, called Genesis (new ed.) vi. 3 This long-sufferance of God the Apostle mentioneth in 1 Pet. 3. 19, 20. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 198 This my long sufferance and my day of grace. View more context for this quotation 1715 Andrews's Great News from Stars sig. C7 Short and momentary are the Afflictions of this Life, yet..subdued with long Sufferance, they crown the Sufferer with Glory endless. c1782 G. Washington in G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (1874) X. xxviii. 573 The long-sufferance of the army is almost exhausted. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby iv. xxiv. 190 Long-sufferance is one path to heaven. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 26 Trying his truth and his long-sufferance. 1941 Poetry Feb. 335 His effects are poisoned at the source, and one can profit by them only if one has the antidote of a powerful longsufferance. 2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 28 Mar. 15 Frankie Howerd was the supreme example, with his air of weary longsufferance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1405 |
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