long-sufferance

Historical Examples

• The result of her labors and long-sufferance had hitherto been but misfortune and failure.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell

• The Great God, in His long-sufferance, told him to ponder further upon the parable of the giant tree.

  Folk-Tales of the Khasis

  K. U. Rafy

• Still he could not prevail upon himself to accept her generosity, though conscious he was undeserving of her long-sufferance.

  Cleo The Magnificent

  Louis Zangwill