Look up: Patience

1. patience
   [n] - good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
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2. Patience
   Pa'tience noun [ French patience , from Latin 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, ins...
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3. patience
   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. 'Strenthened with all might, . . . Unto all patience and long-suffering.' (Col. I. 11) 'I must have patience to endu...
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4. patience
   forbearance noun good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
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5. Patience
   • (n.) Constancy in labor or application; perseverance. • (n.) The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance. • (n.) The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs...
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6. Patience
   (from the article `English literature`) ...poems now generally attributed to a single anonymous author: the chivalric romance Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight, two homiletic poems called ...
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7. Patience
   Patience is a Lat In girl name. The meaning of the name is `suffering ` Where is it used? The name Patience is mainly used In English. Patience appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 654.. 2006 was a `top year` for the name Patience. (Based on 128 years of name history) In that year it ranked #579. Our records go back to 1880 Ye
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8. patience
   patience 1. The quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like. 2. An ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay; such as, to have patience with a slow l...
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9. patience
   
   • good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
   • a card game played by one person
   
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10. patience
    patience: see solitaire.
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11. Patience
    `Patience` is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, which can mean persevering in the face of delay or provocation without acting on annoyance/anger in a negative way; or exhibiting forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties. Patience is the le...
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12. Patience
    (poem) `Patience` is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the Pearl-Poet or Gawain-Poet, also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...
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13. Patience
    (George Michael album) Name = Patience | Type = Album | Artist = George Michael | Cover = Patience.jpg | Border = yes | Released = 18 March 2004 | Recorded = 2002–2004 | Genre = Pop, dance, soul | Length = 70:15 <small>(UK)</small>, 63:09 <small>(US)</small> | Label = Sony ...
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14. Patience
    (Peter Hammill album) `Patience` is an album by Peter Hammill. It was released in August 1983 on Naive Records, a label founded by Gordian Troeller, the former manager of Hammill`s band Van der Graaf Generator. It was remastered in 1991 and released on Fie! Records. It was the second a...
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15. Patience
    (opera) `Patience; or, Bunthorne`s Bride`, is a comic opera in two acts with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. First performed at the Opera Comique, London, on 23 April 1881, it moved to the 1,292-seat Savoy Theatre on 10 October 1881, where it was the first theat...
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16. Patience
    (Take That song) "`Patience`" is a song by British boy band Take That. It was released on November 13, 2006 as the first single from their comeback album Beautiful World. The single reached the top of the charts in Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, as well a...
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17. Patience
    (Dreamgirls song) `"Patience"` is a 2006 (see 2006 in music) song written by Henry Krieger and Willie Reale for the motion picture adaptation of the Broadway musical Dreamgirls. An inspirational "message song" meant to evoke the early-1970s work of artists such as M...
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18. Patience
    (game) `Patience` refers to a game with cards that can be played solitaire. Patience games can also be played in a multiplayer fashion. In the US, the term Solitaire is often used specifically to refer to solitaire with cards. Both Solitaire and Patience are sometimes use...
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19. Patience
    (play) `Patience` is a play written and published in 1998 by Jason Sherman (Doollie.com). It is about a character, Rueben, who one day loses everything. This follows a similar path to David Mamet`s play Edmond. The play takes you on a psychological journey through Rueben`s head,...
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