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patience

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pa·tience  (pshns)
n.
1. The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient.
2. Chiefly British The game solitaire.
Synonyms: patience, long-suffering, resignation, forbearance
These nouns denote the capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience without complaint. Patience emphasizes calmness, self-control, and the willingness or ability to tolerate delay: Our patience will achieve more than our force Edmund Burke.
Long-suffering is long and patient endurance, as of wrong or provocation: The general, a man not known for docility and long-suffering, flew into a rage.
Resignation implies acceptance of or submission to something trying, as out of despair or necessity: I undertook the job with an air of resignation.
Forbearance denotes restraint, as in retaliating, demanding what is due, or voicing disapproval: "It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other" Patrick Henry.

patience
Noun
1. the capacity for calmly enduring difficult situations: the endless patience of the nurses
2. the ability to wait calmly for something to happen without complaining or giving up: he urged the international community to have patience to allow sanctions to work
3. Brit & NZ a card game for one player only [Latin pati to suffer]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.patiencepatience - good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
good nature - a cheerful, obliging disposition
impatience - a dislike of anything that causes delay
2.patience - a card game played by one person
card game, cards - a game played with playing cards
canfield - a form of solitaire that involves gambling
klondike - a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time
crapette, Russian bank - solitaire with two players using separate packs

patience
Translations
Spanish patience [ˈpeɪʃns] npaciencia;
(BRIT) (CARDS) → solitario;
to lose one's patience → perder la paciencia

French patience [ˈpeɪʃns] npatience f;
(Brit) (Cards) → réussite f;
to lose (one's) patience → perdre patience

German patience [ˈpeɪʃns] nGeduld f;
(Brit) (Cards) → Patience f;
to lose (one's) patience → die Geduld verlieren

Italian patience [ˈpeɪʃns] npazienza;
(BRIT ) (CARDS) → solitario;
to lose one's patience → spazientirsi

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But I hear only slow death preached, and patience with all that is "earthly.
Because men are seen, in affairs that lead to the end which every man has before him, namely, glory and riches, to get there by various methods; one with caution, another with haste; one by force, another by skill; one by patience, another by its opposite; and each one succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method.
The patience of waiting, when he wanted to go home and when Steward continued to sit at table and talk and drink beer, was his, as was the patience of the rope around the neck, the fence too high to scale, the narrowed- walled room with the closed door which he could never unlatch but which humans unlatched so easily.
 
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