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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Patience \Pa"tience\ (p[=a]"shens), noun [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.
Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long-suffering. --Col. i. 11.
I must have patience to endure the load. --Shak.
Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross. --Keble.
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. --Matt. xviii. 29.
3. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
He learned with patience, and with meekness taught. --Harte.
4. Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] --Hooker.
They stay upon your patience. --Shak.
5. (Bot.) A kind of dock ({Rumex Patientia}), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
6. (Card Playing) Solitaire.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Monk \Monk\, noun [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.
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.
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.
3. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
4. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A South American monkey ({Pithecia monachus}); also applied to other species, as {Cebus xanthocephalus}. (b) The European bullfinch.
{Monk bat} (Zo["o]l.), a South American and West Indian bat ({Molossus nasutus}); -- so called because the males live in communities by themselves.
{Monk bird}(Zo["o]l.), the friar bird.
{Monk seal} (Zo["o]l.), 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}).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
patience
noun
1: good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence [syn: {forbearance}, {longanimity}] [ant: {impatience}]
2: a card game played by one person [syn: {solitaire}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "patience": acceptance, application, assiduity, assiduousness, ataraxia, ataraxy, benevolence, bovinity, bulldog tenacity, calmness, charitableness, charity, clemency, clementness, compassion, composure, concentration, condonation, constancy, cool, determination, diligence, dispassion, dispassionateness, disregard, dogged perseverance, doggedness, dullness, easiness, easy temper, easygoingness, endurance, engrossment, equanimity, even temper, fidelity, firmness, forbearance, forbearing, forgiveness, forgivingness, fortitude, generousness, gentleness, good temper, humaneness, humanity, impassiveness, impassivity, imperturbability, imperturbableness, indefatigability, indulgence, industriousness, industry, inexcitability, inexcitableness, inirritability, insistence, insistency, kindness, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, long-suffering, longanimity, loyalty, magnanimity, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderateness, nonresistance, obstinacy, overlooking, passiveness, patience of Job, patientness, permanence, permissiveness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pity, plodding, plugging, preoccupation, relentlessness, resignation, resolution, resolve, restraint, sedulity, sedulousness, self-control, serenity, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, smooth temper, softness, stability, stamina, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, stoicism, stolidity, stubbornness, submission, submissiveness, sufferance, suffering, tenaciousness, tenacity, tenderness, tirelessness, tolerance, toleration, uncomplainingness, unirritableness, unnervousness, unpassionateness, unremittingness, unrevengefulness, unswerving attention
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PATIENCE, noun A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
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