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noun

Patience n.

1.

The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc. "Strengthened with all might,... unto all patience and long-suffering." "I must have patience to endure the load." "Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross."

2.

The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance. "Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all."

3.

Constancy in labor or application; perseverance. "He learned with patience, and with meekness taught."

4.

Sufferance; permission. (Obs.) "They stay upon your patience."

5.

(Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.

6.

(Card Playing) Solitaire.

Synonyms: Patience, Resignation. Patience implies the quietness or self-possession of one's own spirit under sufferings, provocations, etc.; resignation implies submission to the will of another. The Stoic may have patience; the Christian should have both patience and resignation.

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"Patience" Quotes from Famous Books

... petitioned, the more the king was bland in avoiding any conclusion; he hoped, by wearing out the patience of the Admiral, to induce him to accept some estates in Castile instead of his powers in the Indies; but Columbus rejected these offers ...

— Christopher Columbus • Mildred Stapley

... the fleet, whom ours [81] style captain-general, is to conduct to the aforesaid lands. We exhort and pray you earnestly, as far as we may in the Lord, to be in all things as the good actor of God, as becometh the holy ones and ministers of God, in all virtues—especially humility, patience, and discipline. ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569 • Emma Helen Blair

... consideration he did his other animals, and more, perhaps. But Mrs. Dumont, who had been born and educated in a non-slaveholding family, and, like many others, used only to work-people, who, under the most stimulating of human motives, were willing to put forth their every energy, could not have patience with the creeping gait, the dull understanding, or see any cause for the listless manners and careless, slovenly habits of the poor down-trodden outcast-entirely forgetting that every high and efficient motive ...

— The Narrative of Sojourner Truth • Sojourner Truth

... fine and finely-cultured man, much beloved by all who knew him, and by none more than by John Ruskin, who says of him, he was "the best and truest friend of all my life.... Nothing can tell the loss to me in his death, nor the grief to how many greater souls than mine that had been possessed in patience ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... who has not suffered similarly, has patience to read thus far (which is doubtful), before now he has said, with Mr. Burchell in the 'Vicar of Wakefield'—'FUDGE.' No matter—I should have so exclaimed once; and I now envy him his healthy ignorance. The history of my derangements is told above ...

— Canada and the States • Edward William Watkin

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