unsuffering

English

Etymology

un- +‎ suffering

Adjective

unsuffering (not comparable)

Not suffering.

Noun

unsuffering (uncountable)

(obsolete) inability or incapability of enduring, or of being endured
- c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, II. Maccabees IX:10, page 875, column 1:
  Also with sauour of hym, and stynkyng, the oost was greeued; and he that a^c lytil byfore demyde hym to^d touche the sterris^e of heuen, no man miȝte beere hym, for vnsuffryng of stynke.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unsuffering”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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