Word Meanings - LONG-SUFFERANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Forbearance to punish or resent.

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• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• PUNISHABLE
  Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
• RESENTIMENT
  Resentment.
• RESENTIVE
  Resentful. Thomson.
• RESENTINGLY
  1. With deep sense or strong perception. Dr. H. More. 2. With a sense of wrong or affront; with resentment.
• RESENT
  1. To be sensible of; to feel; as: In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction. Which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers. Sir T. Browne. In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider
• RESENTFUL
  Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable. -- Re*sent"ful*ly, adv.
• PUNISHMENT
  A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention. (more info) 1. The act of punishing. 2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person
• FORBEARANCE
  The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. He soon shall findForbearance no acquittance ere day end. Milton. 2. The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering. Have a continent forbearance,
• RESENTER
  One who resents. Sir H. Wotton.
• PUNISH
  1. To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a
• RESENTMENT
  1. The act of resenting. 2. The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon something; a state consciousness; conviction; feeling; impression. He retains vivid resentments of the more
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• NONPRESENTATION
  Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• TOTIPRESENT
  Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
• OMNIPRESENTIAL
  Implying universal presence. South.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• PRESENTLY
  1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• RE-PRESENTATION
  The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.
• PRESENTER
  One who presents.
• PRESENTIMENT
  Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• PRESENTIATE
  To make present.