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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
patience
n 1: good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence [syn:
patience, forbearance, longanimity] [ant:
impatience]
2: a card game played by one person [syn: solitaire,
patience]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Patience \Pa"tience\ (p[=a]"shens), n. [F. patience, fr. L.
patientia. See Patient.]
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.
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Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience
and long-suffering. --Col. i. 11.
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I must have patience to endure the load. --Shak.
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Who hath learned lowliness
From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross.
--Keble.
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2. The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for
something due or hoped for; forbearance.
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Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
--Matt. xviii.
29.
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3. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
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He learned with patience, and with meekness taught.
--Harte.
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4. Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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They stay upon your patience. --Shak.
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5. (Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in
America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
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6. (Card Playing) Solitaire.
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Syn: Patience, Resignation.
Usage: 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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Monk \Monk\, n. [AS. munuc, munec, munc, L. monachus, Gr. ?, fr.
mo`nos alone. Cf. Monachism.]
1. A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of
the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a
religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and
bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and
poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." --Chaucer.
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Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in
the substantial vows of religion; but in other
respects monks and regulars differ; for that
regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so
strict a rule of life as monks are. --Ayliffe.
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2. (Print.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused
by the ink not being properly distributed. It is
distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a
deficiency of ink.
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3. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the
powder hose or train of a mine.
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4. (Zool.)
(a) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also
applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
(b) The European bullfinch.
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Monk bat (Zool.), a South American and West Indian bat
(Molossus nasutus); -- so called because the males live
in communities by themselves.
Monk bird(Zool.), the friar bird.
Monk seal (Zool.), a species of seal (Monachus
albiventer) inhabiting the Black Sea, the Mediterranean
Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic.
Monk's rhubarb (Bot.), a kind of dock; -- also called
patience (Rumex Patientia).
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4. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) |
PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
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Thesaurus Results for patience:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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