suffering
noun
the state of a person or thing that suffers.
sufferingly
-
a word derived from
suffering.
Example Sentences
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Had he ever lost his heart so much to something, had he ever loved any person thus, thus blindly, thus sufferingly, thus unsuccessfully, and yet thus happily?
From Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
If Glennard did not hate his wife it was slowly, sufferingly, that there was born in him that profounder passion which made his earlier feeling seem a mere commotion of the blood.
From The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
The two were staring dumbly, sufferingly, at each other.
From Janet of the Dunes by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
