Definitions

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  • noun obsolete Inability or incapability of enduring, or of being endured.

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  • adjective Not suffering.
  • noun obsolete inability or incapability of enduring, or of being endured

Etymologies

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un- +‎ suffering

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Examples

  • That they should have clung so tenaciously to the popular notion of an "unsuffering" Messiah, may surprise us; but it gives inexpressible weight to their after-testimony to a suffering and dying

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Monkton, to whose unsuffering bedside the minister was summoned.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • "The same kind of peace and contentment will come to all your country when the world is settled down to law and order once more," said Eveley, with the sublime faith of the young and the unsuffering.

    Eve to the Rescue Ethel Hueston 1933

  • Sometimes Lena would wake up a little and get back into her face her old, gentle, patient, and unsuffering sweetness, but mostly Lena did not seem to hear much when the good german woman scolded.

    Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena Gertrude Stein 1910

  • Lena would have liked much better to spend her Sundays with the girls she always sat with, and who often asked her, and who teased her and made a gentle stir within her, but it never came to Lena's unexpectant and unsuffering german nature to do something different from what was expected of her, just because she would like it that way better.

    Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena Gertrude Stein 1910

  • But Lena in her unsuffering and unexpectant patience never really knew that she was slighted.

    Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena Gertrude Stein 1910

  • She stood in the hallway every morning a long time in her unexpectant and unsuffering german patience calling to the young ones to get up.

    The Gentle Lena 1909

  • Sometimes Lena would wake up a little and get back into her face her old, gentle, patient, and unsuffering sweetness, but mostly Lena did not seem to hear much when the good german woman scolded.

    The Gentle Lena 1909

  • Lena would have liked much better to spend her Sundays with the girls she always sat with, and who often asked her, and who teased her and made a gentle stir within her, but it never came to Lena’s unexpectant and unsuffering german nature to do something different from what was expected of her, just because she would like it that way better.

    The Gentle Lena 1909

  • But Lena in her unsuffering and unexpectant patience never really knew that she was slighted.

    The Gentle Lena 1909

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