pa|tience

pa|tience
pa|tience «PAY shuhns», noun.
1. willingness to put up with waiting, pain, or anything that annoys, troubles, or hurts; calm endurance without complaining or losing self-control: »

The cat watched the mouse hole with great patience. The boy needed patience when he was having his teeth filled.

2. long, hard work; steady effort: »

to labor with patience.

3. a card game played by one person; solitaire.
4. Obsolete. sufferance; indulgence; leave; permission: »

I can go no further, sir…By your patience, I needs must rest me (Shakespeare).

╂[< Old French pacience, learned borrowing from Latin patientia < patiēns patient]
Synonym Study 1, 2 Patience, forbearance, fortitude mean power to endure, without complaining, something unpleasant or painful. Patience implies calmness and self-control and applies whether one is enduring something unpleasant, or merely waiting, or doing something requiring steady effort: »

Teachers need patience.

Forbearance implies uncommon self-control when greatly tried or provoked: »

He endured the many attacks of his political opponents with admirable forbearance.

Fortitude implies strength of character and calm courage in facing danger or enduring suffering: »

With fortitude, the disabled veteran learned a new trade.


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