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Longsuffering See also Patience. Loquacity (See TALKATIVENESS.) Loser (See FAILURE.) Aspasia pathetic figure bearing fate with fortitude. [Br. Lit.: The Maid’s Tragedy] long-suffering victim of school’s cruel treatment. [Br. Lit.: Jane Eyre] must be funny despite rage over wife’s unfaithfulness. [Ital. Opera: Leoncavallo, Pagliacci, Westerman, 341–342] makes concessions to wife’s greed and irascibility. [Br. Lit.: The Clayhanger Trilogy] patiently endures egotism of his childish wife until marriage dissolves. [Am. Lit.: Dodsworth] endures husband’s cruelty nobly. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “Clerk’s Tale”; Ital. Lit.: Decameron, “Dineo’s Tale of Griselda”] symbol of long-suffering composure. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 176] stoically endures the ostracism imposed on her for adultery. [Am. Lit.: The Scarlet Letter] passively tolerates husband’s adultery; rears his bastard. [Span. Lit.: Fortunata and Jacinta] |
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| Very often it suits a longsuffering family that a strong-tongued, iron-willed old lady should disport herself about India in this fashion; for certainly pilgrimage is grateful to the Gods. |
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